If I'm in file A I use cmd-T to open file B, when done, I press cmd-W, and I'm back to A, if I need B again, I do cmd-T and return (which is already on B).
The problem I have with this is the asymmetry of the action. It forces me to think about which half of the toggle I'm on, rather than just doing it without thinking.
If I need to go back and forth a lot, I use the option-cmd left/right of course.
And the problem with this is that it breaks down if I leave more than 1 or 2 files open at a time, since then the file to which I'm switching probably already has a tab open which may well not be adjacent to the previous file. This is precisely what motivated the mention of keyboard control for reordering tabs, though I think in all truth I'm just not much of a tabs person in general, outside my browser, and ultimately (when plugins materialize and I can just write my own buffer switcher, if necessary) I may want to disable the tabs altogether (blasphemy!).
I've changed it so that w/o a filtering string, it sorts items based on last time used.
Do you mean it's already in 1.1b16 or that you just changed it in development? It doesn't seem to me to be doing that in b16, so I trust that's not what you meant (though I may have misunderstood how it works)...
I don't clear the filter string when pressing cmd-T -- but with your usage, you'd probably just have it cleared most of the time anyway.
Well, I still like to be able to choose files explicitly this way, as well, but it's definitely a huge start. Since you leave the previous filter string selected on pressing cmd-T it's pretty trivial to just hit delete, so, since the exact usage of this window is of course a matter of personal preference, I'll leave further exploration of its subtleties to future discussion and reflection.
And it has been on the to-do for some time -- but all this project stuff is really scheduled for 1.2.
Rock on. I don't mean to prod you unnecessarily with any of this, it's just the reality of spending >8 hours/day working in an app that, as polished as it is, one always thinks of a plethora of tweaks and enhancements in the course of a day's work. I just spam the list whenever one of these thoughts develops into a more clear form, so the flurry of requests and ideas at any given moment is in no way meant to be urgent or demanding. And your phenomenal responsiveness certainly doesn't discourage frequent suggestions ;) -jrk