Re: Re: Why do we have editor tabs?

--- John Richardson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> This sounds something like what eclipse does. 
> Personally I find it  
> mildly annoying... eclipse doesn't show file tabs
> for the files that  
> it opens when it steps into methods in the debugger.
>  And I find  
> myself trying to refer back to those files later. :(
> 
> I guess it's understandable, especially for those
> mainly dealing with  
> only a few files.
> 
> 

Yeah, the tabs are awesome.  It makes work much easier
when you need to switch between files.  Many IDE's
have them.  A lot of times people don't want to have
their hands on the keyboard when debugging and just
stepping through some code...I know I don't after 12+
hours.  I like to sit back and watch the movie with my
mouse clicker.  :-P  my 2 cents.  What is the issue
with tabs again?  The screen space?  Use a higher
resolution if you don't have enough screen realestate.
 The tabs only take up about the equivalent of a line
or two of source code anyways.

Wade