I don't know a way to solve your problem, but one trick that'll make your current behavior a little nicer is Control + Option + W, which closes all open tabs, rather than jamming on Command + W.

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Steven Rowat Steven_Rowat@sunshine.net wrote:

Hi,

Daniel wrote:

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Unless I'm living in a parallel dimension, the name of the currently viewed file is always at the very top of the window, next to the file icon above the tab bar. Is this not the case?

Command + T (Go To File) is also your friend, as is Command + Option + (L/R) Arrow (Go to Previous/Next Tab, respectively).

Thank you; the Command+T I knew, the second I didn't.

They will be useful, but don't solve the issue I tried to describe.

Again: what I want is to be able to make a file display in the tabs at the top, when the tab list is already full, and the file is further down in the drop-down list.

The only way I can do this at present, that I know of, is to hit Command-W twenty or more times and unload everything so I have a blank project, and then reload the files I want to have as tabs at the top.

I find working with visible tabs, when I'm passing data between four or five files repeatedly (ie., several includes and a main php file) to be much faster and easier than finding them in the drop-down list over and over as I switch back and forth between them. So I'd like to put them at the top each time, before I begin editing them. I'm currently working with hundreds of files that often have only a single digit or number different, and it's very easy to get them confused unless all my ducks are in a row (in this case, literally, a row across the top).

And sometimes there's only *one* that I'm missing from the top - but still, if it's way down the list, then there's no way to get it up there without unloading everything else before it (if I'm right about this).

It's not a big deal; I can just unload and reload and it's quick. But still I think it would be cleaner if the file listing gave this option - to have a file tab become visible when this is preferred, so that the chosen file would change its position in the file listing and become the final visible tab.

steven rowat

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