[TxMt] Re: Automatic vs. manual tabs

Thomas Allen thomasmallen at gmail.com
Mon Sep 8 22:53:26 UTC 2008


Yes.

Trevor Harmon wrote:
> 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
>
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