[TxMt] Re: Automatic vs. manual tabs

[jiho]

On 2008-September-09  , at 00:53 , Thomas Allen wrote:

> 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?

I would prefer the one you propose only if there is a very easy way yo  
open a document in a new tab (i.e. middle click or option click on the  
file name in the drawer). The mouse interactions would be easy to copy  
from browser but I don't see an obvious solution when opening files  
with ⌘T, or jumping to the header file from an implementation file.

JiHO
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