<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">A nice UI thing might be to add a <span style="font-family: sans-serif;" class="">⌘T </span>button in the tab bar (i.e if that's the replacement for clicking on a stale tab, then make it click-accessible too.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Less discoverable, add new tab + sign could change to a <span style="font-family: sans-serif;" class="">⌘T button when user holds down option?</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thinking about it, in mail.app right now, I have a tool bar in the title bar...</div><div class="">For TextMate where several of the most powerful innovations are hidden away (all the Ts :-) ), adding these to the title bar would be a win, esp for users who fail to learn less-than-daily-use multi-key commands</div><div class=""><div><br class=""></div><div>PS: Removing the "add license" button text would be nice for those us who have added a license already :-)</div><div><br class=""></div><div>t</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 15 Sep 2019, at 11:14 am, Allan Odgaard <<a href="mailto:mailinglist@textmate.org" class="">mailinglist@textmate.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div style="font-family:sans-serif" class=""><div style="white-space:normal" class=""><p dir="auto" class="">On 5 Sep 2019, at 22:32, Andrew Hodgkinson wrote:</p>
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<div style="white-space:normal" class=""><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px" class=""><p dir="auto" class="">To be honest, I'm surprised it isn't the default. This is of course just a subjective opinion!</p>
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<div style="white-space:normal" class=""><p dir="auto" class="">My thinking was that a full tab bar (that degrades into an overflow menu) is a bigger annoyance than having stale tabs auto-close.</p>
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<div style="white-space:normal" class=""><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px" class=""><p dir="auto" class="">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.</p>
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<div style="white-space:normal" class=""><p dir="auto" class="">Are you aware of File → Open Quickly… (⌘T)?</p><p dir="auto" class="">This opens a list of recently used files and offers a much faster way to re-open files.</p><p dir="auto" class="">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.</p><p dir="auto" class="">But you do have a point that it’s not expected behavior, for now, I have made the <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7" class="">disableTabAutoClose</code> available through a checkbox in preferences: <a href="https://github.com/textmate/textmate/commit/d9ac41d7900370b85bcf1d0c25ef58c4fbc44a60" style="color:#3983C4" class="">https://github.com/textmate/textmate/commit/d9ac41d7900370b85bcf1d0c25ef58c4fbc44a60</a></p><p dir="auto" class="">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.</p>
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<div style="white-space:normal" class=""><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px" class=""><p dir="auto" class="">Has there been any consideration to using the current macOS system-wide tab bar instead?</p>
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<div style="white-space:normal" class=""><p dir="auto" class="">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.</p><p dir="auto" class="">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 <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7" class="">NSDocument</code> and friends.</p>
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