When opening a document in a project that already has several tabs open, I find it very unpredictable where the new tab will go. It appears somewhere in the middle of the other tabs, and seems to disturb their order. Moreover, if I open a document whose tab is already open, it moves within the order of tabs.

All of that seems wrong and confusing, and makes it hard to keep track of which tab is which (because the order keeps changing so there is no positional memory). I would like to see the rule be:

* A document that is not already open, opens as the *first* tab. (I would really like it to be last, but that does not seem feasible because there might be too many tabs for the window, and it is pointless to hide the new tab off to the right.)

* A document that *is* already open, simply selects that tab, without changing the order of existing tabs.

m.

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