[TxMt] Re: Should be a way to reorder tabs once they overflow the tab bar

[Kalcifer Kandari]

> On 14 Oct 2015, at 13:39, Allan Odgaard <mailinglist at textmate.org> wrote:
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> On 14 Oct 2015, at 19:11, Kalcifer Kandari wrote:
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>> But you can't place that tab in a different position in the menu (without great difficulty, because the menu essentially works like a stack).
> 
> OK, I see what you mean. Though I don’t really agree that this is a required feature, sorry ;)
> 
> For a web browser, you can’t really close tabs to “cleanup” when your bar overflows, so it makes a little sense to allow users to organize tabs even when the number of tabs are in the double digits. But for TextMate, there is really no harm in pruning the tab bar to clean it up.

Not sure how browser tabs, or Finder tabs are different to text file tabs. The whole point of tabs is to be able to reorder them, otherwise you would just have the menu. Keeping tabs in a sensible order speeds up cycling between them, making it easier to find a certain tabs if related tabs are next to each other. If you are going to have tabs, go all in, make sure all open files have tabs, there is no reason to treat files differently.

> I would highly encourage you to look at the Go → Go to File… (⌘T) action. This makes it very quick to jump to other files

Still can't reorder open files in the 'Go -> Go to File…' menu. That menu is also inconvenient in full screen mode.

> the main reason for the tab bar is to allow ⌘1-n as accelerator keys for the first n tabs (where n is probably no higher than 5).

No it isn't. 

And there are those who use tabs with the 'Select Next Tab' and 'Select Previous Tab' shortcuts, but that still isn't the main reason for tabs, reordering is. (Also, the default shortcut for those should be 'ctrl+tab' and 'ctrl+shift+tab' like in all major browsers and Finder).

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