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This is an idea I stole from firefox tabmix plugin. https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/1122 I would like to be able to re-open the last editor closed tab with a simple shortcut, like say ctrl-F12. There are many useful feature in plugins like tab_mix, the "reopen last closed tab" is by far the most useful. It became habit to use Ctrl-F12 even in eclipse (where it doesn't do anything), so I hope this feature is accepted
If the editor you just closed was active, then you can simply use Alt+Left_Arrow to bring it back.
ok thank you I didn't came to my mind that you can come back to a closed file with alt+left I guess this feature request should be closed.. is this really the 236240th bug/feature_request ?
Hello, I don't agree with this solution. Of course, if you just closed the file you want to reopen, it does work. But, if you have a dozen tabs open and you did close one of the first files by mistake (clicking the hidden cross for example), the shortcut Alt+Left_Arrow doesn't work ! I hope you understand and accept this feature request. :-)
In the end, I agree with Jerome and myself ^^ that this feature does not exist, but since I can live with the alt-arrow most of the time, I didn't came back to support this
You're right this feature is missing.
*** Bug 273235 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Currently when right-clicking on editor tabs there are 3 options: Close, Close others, Close all. Would be great to have additional option "Restore closed tab" as in modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Opera) to automatically reopen last closed editor tab. Three major browser vendors agreed that is very useful feature in multi-tab environment. Eclipse developers think different?
Would be helpful to implement a short history of recently closed 10 tabs like in firefox.
(In reply to Prakash Gourav from comment #8) > Would be helpful to implement a short history of recently closed 10 tabs > like in firefox. I did this once in Extended VS Presentation Plugin, but the code was based on old 3.x API which is not available on 4.x anymore :-( The key point was: there must be a listener to the editor part close() events and the listener remembers the editor input objects + editor icons, and creates "recently closed editor" menu out of them. While this worked in most cases, the drawback of this solution is that this code "leaks" closed editor input objects and editor icons (not a big problem if the input is properly implemented, but a problem if input references large domain objects, which might lead to unexpected OOM), and it does not work for some of the "special" editors which cannot be easily reopened by re-using their input objects.
Solving issue #358284 involves solving this one.
*** Bug 358284 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Alt+Left reopens the editor that just got closed, and the Left arrow in the toolbar shows a short history.
Dani, as indicated in comment #1, this only happens in certain conditions. Thanks for reopening. Note that WORKSFORME should only be used for bugs. If a request for a change is found to request a change already implemented, the ticket should be marked INVALID.
Solving issue #507121 involves solving this one.
