[TxMt] Re: Tab behaviour

Gerd Knops gerti-textmate at bitart.com
Wed Sep 26 14:32:34 UTC 2012


On 26 Sep 2012, at 4:48, Jonas Zimmermann wrote:

> I'd like to bring the current behaviour of the file tabs to 
> discussion, as the corresponding issue on github has been closed.
> My problem is that switching between files with cmd-T or clicking on 
> files in the file browser reorders the tabs, moving the current file's 
> tab to the right of the old file's tab.
> This behaviour is, so I'm told, to make sure that closing the open 
> file will result in going back to the previous file.
> How is it then that changing files by clicking on the tab does not 
> change the order?
>
> To me it seems this behaviour is quite odd, and it's not standard UI 
> (or is there another app that moves tabs around like this?).
>
I very much agree. The current behavior is annoying to me. Add tabs at 
the end. Keep 'em in the order we opened them.

And reconsider the obnoxious file browser selection behavior too. After 
dealing with it for almost a year it still bugs me every day.

Gerd


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