Bug 1829

Description Nick Edgar 2001-10-10 22:20:08 EDT

I find that once I have more than 4 or 5 editors open, switching between them becomes awkward.
If not all their tabs appear, then I have to scroll all the time.  The main window I'm working in is usually
the first.  New windows which I open to browse code I'm are added to the end of the list, 
causing the tabs to scroll all the way to the right.  To go back to my main window, I have to scroll back
to the left.

NOTES:

NE (6/27/00 11:49:07 AM)
	My workaround is to close all editors and reopen my main one periodically.

SS (6/27/00 2:04:39 PM)
	You can bring an editor to the front by selecting the file in the navigator OR by adding a bookmark
for the file. Double clicking on the bookmark then causes the editor to come forward.
Filing for future consideration that the editor area is small.

AW (12.07.00 15:44:41)
	There should be an option to have only a fixed number of editors open. If that limit is reached
	old editors are automatically closed in a LRU/non-dirty fashion.

SS (7/13/00 2:06:30 PM)
	I don't like the proposal from AW. I think new editors should open in the left most position.

DG (18/07/00 4:09:04 PM)
   Why don't we have an option like Microsoft start bar, where new buttons cause all of them
to shrink a bit, but there is no scrolling. After a while, editor tabs would become very narrow,
but so do start bar buttons. You can always move your mouse to make the tool tip show up.

Visual Age C++ (Montana) used to have this feature that was user-selectable. It was possible
to choose either full tab label with tab scrolling (as we have today) and shrinking tabs where
all the tabs stay visible, albeit narrower and narrower.

Another alternative: at the moment, right button on the tab area brings up pop-up menu.
It allows closing the editor in question, or closing all editors. We could add a separator
after these two actions, and add a list of all the opened editors. Selecting a name from
the list would bring the editor to front (similar to selecting the resource in the navigator).