[TxMt] Re: Closing the last tab

Elia Schito elia at schito.me
Thu May 10 22:36:03 UTC 2012


I *vote* for the empty space, since it's the "project" that somehow is open
and not a particular file.

Opening an untitled doc again on the contrary feels a bit confusing to me.
More a workaround than a solution…

(for the nostalgic a giant TextMate icon is also acceptable)

Elia

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On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Brandon Fryslie <bmf at matewiki.com> wrote:

> Or it could be a Dashboard with some usage statistics - time spent using
> your 'favorite' languages, most accessed commands, frequently used keyboard
> shortcuts, number of bundles installed, etc.
>
> Just a random thought I had - could be cool!
>
> --
> Brandon Fryslie
> http://www.MateWiki.com - A TextMate 2 Wiki
>
> On Friday, May 4, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Artie Ziff wrote:
>
> On 2/29/12 5:13 AM, Rob McBroom wrote:
>
> On Feb 28, 2012, at 4:38 PM, Curt Sellmer wrote:
>
> It would also be nice if there were a setting where when you close the
> last tab in a window, instead of the entire window closing, a new untitled
> document was used as a placeholder instead, just as when a folder is
> originally opened.
>
> +1
>
> In the meantime, you can use the File → Open Recent menu item to
> semi-quickly reopen the thing. (Or right-arrow into TextMate using
> Quicksilver.)
>
> Thank you, Rob for pointing out this quick recovery.
>
> FWICT, when TM2 is launched from the command line on a directory, the
> window we are looking at is an untitled document window as opposed to an
> empty file browser window. That's the crux of the issue, right? If you
> close the last document window then the file browser goes with it,
> because the file browser is an accessory to the document window as
> opposed to being a standalone file browser.
>
> This is a usability issue as I may never be able to prevent myself from
> closing a document window. Even when clicking on the close icon in the
> browser's file list, the browser is closed with it. I wonder how the TM2
> Jedi Council will decide what will be the final behavior? Perhaps the
> most logical thing for TM2 to do is to open an Untitled document window
> if the file browser is in use and the last document window is closed.
>
> -AZ
>
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