[TxMt] Re: RC29-30-31 don't obey tab auto-close override

-- Marc Wilson posguy99@gmail.com On Thu, Sep 5, 2019, at 1:32 PM, Andrew Hodgkinson wrote: > I hope this is the correct place to post about this; the TextMate GitHub > repo doesn't seem to let anyone add issues. This setting: > > defaults write com.macromates.TextMate.preview disableTabAutoClose > -bool YES > > ...is being ignored by RC 29, 30 and 31 (if not earlier, I didn't try). > The last "mainstream" release appears to be RC10, which works fine. > > The setting is absolutely vital to me, so I'd really love to see this > issue fixed. In the mean time I'll stick to RC10. > > To be honest, I'm surprised it isn't the default. This is of course just > a subjective opinion! For me, having tabs close and lose tab ordering > and positioning is quite destructive to workflow, especially when > working in projects with large numbers of files. I have to go scrolling > up and down in the file browser trying to relocate something I'd opened > for reference but has now closed again. The behaviour feels rather > arbitrary / random too; the threshold depends on window dimensions, so > it isn't very user-predictable. I never remember to right-click and > choose "Sticky"; it's not something I've ever had to do in any other > text editor or IDE, so it's just not in my muscle memory. > > Has there been any consideration to using the current macOS system-wide > tab bar instead? This "compresses" tabs when the tab bar gets full & > automatically expands tabs towards the side of the tab bar most recently > selected (at least in Finder or Safari, but maybe Apple implemented > special subclasses and this isn't out-of-box Cocoa behaviour). If it's > good enough for web browsers, where having very large numbers of tabs > open is common, it's hopefully good enough for a text editor too. The > "hide if overflowing" behaviour, if it were kept, could then become > opt-in instead of opt-out. While other editors seem to be adopting > Sublime's "temporary tab" approach, I've never been sure I like it; and > going with the best-practice OS X core system approach has always felt > like the TextMate ethos. > > -- > TTFN, Andrew Hodgkinson > Find photos, software, music and more at my home site, Bandcamp and > GitHub: > https://pond.org.uk / https://pondnz.bandcamp.com / > https://github.com/pond > > _______________________________________________ > TextMate mailing list > TextMate@lists.macromates.com > https://lists.macromates.com/listinfo/textmate >