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Hi people, Working & debugging on our medium-size app frequently involves 5 - 8 core files and, as we work patterns through and check related code in other files, an extra 5 - 10 files will get opened. These open files get substantially awkward to manage & navigate; especially in the debugger, which tends to have less screen space. I use Ctrl-Shift-R as a matter of course since the horizontal tabs are effectively useless for my purposes. As an immediate solution I'd like: 1) Ctrl-Shift-R to work in the Debugger 2) option of vertical tabs for the files, so I can clearly see up to 20 Longer term I could imagine having Eclipse automatically track the 'core set' of files which I'm working/ editing closely with; and having a slider which I can pull back to drop the less-core files off my tab list. Would this be helpful for other people? It's about the only area in which I prefer JBuilder :-) Regards, Thomas
Look under Preferences > Workbench > Editors. There is an option to close editors automatically, with a threshold to specify how many editors to open before reusing. I find setting this around "6" works very well, since human short term memory can't track much more than that anyway. You can then "Pin" editors on your core set of files to prevent them from being reused (look in editor tab context meu).
Also, to get Ctrl+Shift+R to work in the debugger, select Window > Customize Perspective > Commands > Resource Navigation.
Ctrl+Shift+W (Window > Switch to Editor) also gives a dialog with all editors.
