[TxMt] Re: RC29-30-31 don't obey tab auto-close override

[Allan Odgaard]

On 5 Sep 2019, at 22:32, Andrew Hodgkinson wrote:

> To be honest, I'm surprised it isn't the default. This is of course 
> just a subjective opinion!

My thinking was that a full tab bar (that degrades into an overflow 
menu) is a bigger annoyance than having stale tabs auto-close.

> For me, having tabs close and lose tab ordering and positioning is 
> quite destructive to workflow, especially when working in projects 
> with large numbers of files. I have to go scrolling up and down in the 
> file browser trying to relocate something I'd opened for reference but 
> has now closed again.

Are you aware of File → Open Quickly… (⌘T)?

This opens a list of recently used files and offers a much faster way to 
re-open files.

When using ⌘T the order of tabs, and which are open, becomes less 
important, and this also influenced my decision about the current 
behavior with re-ordering and auto-closing.

But you do have a point that it’s not expected behavior, for now, I 
have made the `disableTabAutoClose` available through a checkbox in 
preferences: 
https://github.com/textmate/textmate/commit/d9ac41d7900370b85bcf1d0c25ef58c4fbc44a60

I think you’re the first user to bring up this issue, so I’m 
hesitant to change the current defaults, but you do have a good point 
that tabs should behave predictable, so I may reconsider them in the 
future.

> Has there been any consideration to using the current macOS 
> system-wide tab bar instead?

As far as I know this is only available by using the document based 
architecture where the system basically collapses the applications 
multiple windows into tabs.

So it’s not a component that can just be adopted, we would have to 
re-engineer the application to use the document based APIs, and there is 
likely to be some disadvantages to doing that. But I am slowly moving 
the internals toward `NSDocument` and friends.
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