Re: Re: [nbdev] Too many editor tabs?

buffers are implementation artifacts and it's high time we get rid of
them being visible to the user.


> >> From [email protected]  
> >> Mon Mar 20 16:29:14 2006
> >> To: [email protected]
> >> From: Jesse Glick <[email protected]>
> >> Date:  Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:28:10 -0500
> >> Subject: [nbui]  Re: [nbdev] Too many editor tabs?
> >>
> >> Ivan Soleimanipour wrote:
> >>> 2) have an LRU (not alphabetical) list in a menu pulldown.
> >>
> >> Is this similar to the LRU list of editor tabs you currently get by
> >> pressing Ctrl-Tab?
> >>
> >
> >
> > I tried it but Ctrl-Tab was usurped by my KDE window manager.
> > But still ... there is the pull down in the editor toolbar and this.
> > Is the alphabetical cache really useful? Why not replace it with the
> > LRU list?
> 
> I use two keyboard-only ways to navigate files:
> 
> Ctrl-Tab, which I use to switch between my two-three last edited  
> documents. (Like ^ in vi, C-x C-b in emacs)
> Shift-F4, which I use to jump to arbitrary open files. Simply start  
> typing the name (like C-x C-b [prefix] in emacs).
> 
> I wouldn't want the IDE to immediately close the current document as  
> soon as I open another one. I want it to stay in the background such  
> that jumping back and forth is just about immediate, such that the  
> caret position is remembered, etc.
> 
> Emacs never closes any buffers for you - they accumulate and  
> accumulate and you can always jump back to them. It's not a problem  
> though because they don't take up room. Personally, I never look at  
> the tabs. True, it's a wasted line of screen real estate but I  
> actually have enough of that. So I treat files a bit like emacs - I  
> open them, and I can jump back to them when I want. Since I never use  
> the tabs, the fact that they're not navigatable (too many items) is  
> not a problem for me.  Periodically, when I start something new, I go  
> and do a Windows -> Close All Documents just to lighten NetBeans'  
> load - just like I'd occasionally kill Emacs buffers.   The big  
> difference is that NetBeans brings the buffers back up after a  
> restart - emacs did not.
> 
> -- Tor
> 
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