[TxMt] Re: tab position

[Allan Odgaard]

On 27 Jan 2014, at 11:25, Matt Neuburg wrote:

>> I was under the impression that new tabs are always opened to the 
>> right of the current tab.
> Maybe. But then what I'm saying is: that's a bad rule, since it 
> destroys the muscle memory (or whatever you call it) for the existing 
> tabs you've been working with already. It should open first or last, 
> but it should not disturb or interrupt the existing sequence.

I guess this depens on your workflow. The current behavior means that 
you can consistently “open” a document and then use ⌘W 
(“close”) to go back to your previous document (this works 
regardless of wether you had the document already open or not).

Chrome tries to achieve the same by a) mostly opening to the right, and 
b) when you use ⌘T for “new tab” it opens at the end of the tab 
bar, but ⌘W will jump back to your previously used tab (most of the 
time) to compensate for not opening new tabs to the right of the current 
one. It does not have to deal with the issue of re-opening a 
tab/document.