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Bug 367277

Summary:	e4 Editor tab history is Microsoft-like
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Ed Willink <ed>
Component:	E4	Assignee:	Project Inbox <e4.swt-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	P3	CC:	remy.suen
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows Vista
Whiteboard:

Description Ed Willink

2011-12-21 04:19:43 EST

M4: In Eclipse 3.x when too many editors were open to display all the tabs, the most recent were shown. The e4 behaviour seems to emulate Microsoft Visual Studio by showing the most useless.

In particular, while editing file A, select file B from the pull-down and file A immediately disappears.

Comment 1 Remy Suen

2011-12-21 19:31:35 EST

(In reply to comment #0)
> M4: In Eclipse 3.x when too many editors were open to display all the tabs, the
> most recent were shown.

The tab order is now in the order in which the files were opened similar to what you see in a browser.

> The e4 behaviour seems to emulate Microsoft Visual
> Studio by showing the most useless.

I'm not sure if this is what Visual Studio does since I've not used VS before. It is also not clear from your comment how a tab is deemed useless or not.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 344029 ***