Re: Why do we have editor tabs?

Jesse Glick <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.user-interface
Organization Sun Microsystems / NetBeans
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
John Richardson wrote:
> I'm trying NetBeans again (for Matisse) after a long run with Eclipse
> and find that the tabs are pretty useless.  Eclipse 3.2 has a nice
> feature where it moves the tabs you've used most recently to the 
> visible area.  Otherwise, I find I use Open Class or alt-tab.

FWIW there's an experimental module in contrib/autoclose that might 
help, by limiting the number of open tabs. Not the same thing as 
reordering them based on usage.

-J.

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