[TxMt] how do you close excess tabbed files?

Edmundo Ortega ed at westernfreight.com
Sun Jan 23 03:08:13 UTC 2005


What about adding a preference for tabs that works like this:

When checked, any file clicked on in the project drawer is 
automatically added as a tab. This is the current behavior.

When unchecked, you must command-click (or something like that) to add 
a file to the tab bar.

This would work well for me, because many times I'm working on a set of 
files, but i must refer to other files temporarily (eg to check an 
interface). I always forget to close those files and I end up with a 
lot of extra files in my tabs that I don't want open for more than a 
moment.

The idea above would allow you to have a set of open tabbed files that 
comprise your working set. Files that are not specifically opened as a 
tab will only appear while you are looking at them. When they are being 
viewed, all the tabs will be in the off state. When you click a tab 
again, the temporary file will disappear. To look at it again you must 
choose it from the project drawer.

Come to think of it, this is a bit like the behavior of Safari or 
Firefox. Imagine if every page you clicked on became a new tab in your 
browser.

Ed




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