Sam Andrews wrote:
To be honest, i find tabs a real pain to use in editors, i often need to have a whole slew of files open (often with idiotically long names thanks to some of the stuff i get given), and as a result i can only fit a handful on my powerbooks screen.
Well that's a matter of taste :) I too often need to open a slew of files, and am happy with two piled up levels of tabs, and sometimes more.
What I do mind however are completely disorganised windows all over the place (eg SubEthaEdit and so many others), or absurdly unusable drop-down file switchers (eg XCode). I also often need to edit a bunch of files that are not logically related together within a project, so I don't want the project overhead (which currently incurs some indirection) or the drawer (which uses screen estate for little gain imho).
But that's text editors, if people agreed about them we'd only have one :-)