I would like to use Open Favorite more frequently but there’s a couple of things that always throws me off and makes it less productive for me. Not sure if they’re bugs or by design.
Say I have 4 favourites named F1, F2, F3, F4
I usually have multiple working windows open with the root folder being one of these favourites. So say I have 2 opened with favourites F1 and F2 and files opened in each.
Now I would like to open a third window with the root folder being F1 because there’s an unrelated feature or bug that doesn’t have anything to do with the files being edited in the first F1 project. (i.e. I would like to segregate and keep track of the files being worked on by using 2 different windows).
So I Shift-Cmd-O to bring up the Open Favorite popup and select one of the favourites and this is what happens:
In the latest nightly build, a new window opens and fills with a selection of open files from F1. This is actually new behaviour that I see when writing up this email. Could be it’s opening up some previously cached version of a F1 window?
In previous builds what happens is that the original F1 comes to the front.
What I was hoping is that a new window opens with the root folder being the favourite I selected.
Ed Wong
On 22 May 2014, at 16:31, Ed Wong wrote:
A bit late on this one…
[…] So I Shift-Cmd-O to bring up the Open Favorite popup and select one of the favourites and this is what happens:
In the latest nightly build, a new window opens and fills with a selection of open files from F1. This is actually new behaviour that I see when writing up this email. Could be it’s opening up some previously cached version of a F1 window?
This is not the expected behavior and not something I can reproduce.
Does the two F1 windows show the same project folder: should be visible in the window title or when using Go → Project Folder (⇧⌘O).
In previous builds what happens is that the original F1 comes to the front.
This is the expected behavior and I think makes sense as the default behavior. Perhaps holding option or adding a button to the Open Favorites dialog could make it instead do a “duplicate” — I don’t think this is a simple change though, so I can add it to the list, but probably won’t look into it anytime soon (so a PR is your best bet if you need it).
Meanwhile what you can do is:
1. Press ⌃⌥⌘N (New Project) 2. Go → Favorites or click the heart icon in the file browser 3. Click the desired folder 4. Open the top drop-down menu of the file browser and select “Use «folder» as Project Folder”.
Listing the above steps makes me think project folder for new windows should not be set before actually opening a file (unless the window was created by opening a folder, e.g. via mate).
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Ed Wong