The tab metaphor for opened files works fairly well, especially if you make the effort to open related files next to each other. The tabs should shrink smaller imo, but that's a separate issue.
The question I have is -- if you are working on two files that are far apart in the tab bar, is there any shortcut for switching between them? My thought is that the program could maintain a history list of viewed files, and then a key binding could be assigned to navigate back and forward over that history list. Could this be added? (Or does this capability exist somehow?)
Cheers, Wayne
On 5. Nov 2004, at 17:57, Wayne Larsen wrote:
The question I have is -- if you are working on two files that are far apart in the tab bar, is there any shortcut for switching between them?
The only short cut in this context is “Go to Header/Source” (command-up). What it does is it opens/goes to the next file in the project with same basename, but other extension.
I guess this is mostly a (Objective-)C(++) feature.
My thought is that the program could maintain a history list of viewed files, and then a key binding could be assigned to navigate back and forward over that history list. Could this be added? (Or does this capability exist somehow?)
You can drag-sort the tabs, that way you can line them up as you'd want to step through them. So when you have the two tabs far apart, just drag one of them next to the other, and you can use command-left/right to move between them.
I'm not completely rejecting the history idea, but for now I think drag-sorting is more transparent (i.e. it has the ordering visible, and it allows the user to manipulate it easily).
On 5-Nov-04, at 3:06 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
My thought is that the program could maintain a history list of viewed files, and then a key binding could be assigned to navigate back and forward over that history list. Could this be added? (Or does this capability exist somehow?)
You can drag-sort the tabs, that way you can line them up as you'd want to step through them. So when you have the two tabs far apart, just drag one of them next to the other, and you can use command-left/right to move between them.
If they are pushed off the tab bar, can you still drag sort them some how?
I have my editor window set to 80 characters wide. Right now, I have 29 files open. Of those 29, four show up as tabs. That makes using tabs not exactly the most efficient means of accessing the files -- the overflow tabs are more work to access than using the project drawer, so basically I use the project drawer all the time. The only way to get them in the right order (so I can use the next/previous tab commands) is to close a file, open the file you want it to be beside, and then open it. This needs to be done ahead of time -- ie, a conscious "I want to work on these files together" thought. Accessing the files in a history list simply falls out of your way of working.
I'm not completely rejecting the history idea, but for now I think drag-sorting is more transparent (i.e. it has the ordering visible, and it allows the user to manipulate it easily).
If you can drag sort the files that are not visible in the tab bar, that would help. However, I would not suggest replacing the current method -- this history list could simply be in addition to how it works right now.
Cheers, Wayne
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