[TxMt] Re: Different tabs behaviour

[Bas Van Klinkenberg]

According to the manual Textmate closes obsolete tabs when the tab bar gets filled up:

2.3.2 Closing Tabs
A common problem is being left with too many open tabs. In an attempt to counter that, TextMate will automatically close tabs that hasn’t been used in a while, when the tab bar overflows.

Additionally there are a few explicit ways that you can close multiple tabs in a single action:

Hold down option (⌥) when opening a file either via the file browser or file chooser. For the latter, you normally open files via return (↩) so here you would press option-return (⌥↩).
Use File → Close Other Tabs (⌃⌘W) or File → Close All Tabs (⌃⌥⌘W).
Right-click a tab and select any of the close actions, e.g. Close Tabs to the Right.
Sometimes you have documents that should stay open, like a to-do list, which may prevent the use of a batch close action. In this case, right-click the tab in question and select Sticky (toggle). When a tab is made sticky, the batch close actions will leave it open.

The problem is that tabs are allowed shrunk to about 4 characters + ellipsis before tab removal starts to kick in. Maybe it should start to remove tabs a bit earlier than that?

Personally I often set the tabs I really want to keep as ‘Sticky’ (right click on the tab) and use the ‘Close Other Tabs’ a lot, in conjunction with the ‘Go to File’ menu (⌘T).

Regards,
Bas


On 8 May 2014, at 20:54 , Tobias Jung <newsgr at tobiasjung.net> wrote:

> Adam Štěpánek wrote (Thu, 8 May 2014 19:59:36 +0200):
> 
>> If you're working on a large project where you actually edit only
>> several files at the time but you need to peek into other files from
>> time to time as well (usually as a one-time look), the tab bar gets full
>> very quickly and it's almost impossible to find there the file you're
>> looking for.
> 
> Well, for a peek you always can right-click the file and select "Quick Look..." from the contextual menu.
> Not the same thing, but maybe sufficient...
> 
> Kind regards,
> Tobias Jung
> 
> 
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