[TxMt] Automatic vs. manual tabs

[Trevor Harmon]

In TextMate, buffer tabs are automatic: A new tab is always opened  
whenever you click on a file in a project drawer. After a half hour of  
navigating source code, I suddenly find dozens of tabs open at the top  
of my editor window, but I can only see a few of them. This makes the  
tabs feature basically unusable.

In contrast, web browser tabs operate quite differently. They're  
manual instead of automatic: A new tab doesn't open unless you  
explicitly open one. Until then, new data is displayed in the current  
tab. TextMate's tab feature would be much more useful to me if it  
worked this way --- the way web browsers do.

Does anyone prefer the current (automatic) behavior?

Trevor