Re: [ide-dev] Interesting way of laying out editor tabs

[Doug Schaefer <dschaefer@xxxxxxx>]

Yes, I consider this better than the Cmd E/3 options. Things like closing editors from there is a bonus, and it doesn’t require me being on the keyboard, and it doesn’t block my current editor which is usually involved somehow in why I’m looking to open another editor.

My Package Explorer is usually over half whitespace, using a chunk of that left column for this is worth it. And, of course it would be optional.

Part of my thinking did include whether it made better sense to add a virtual node to the Package/Project explorer, but I’d wait until we have a unified Project Explorer so that work would only have to be done once. And it’s got to work in the different view modes for the explorer, projects and working sets. But I think to start, having an optional view would give us a taste of the experience.

Anyway, something to play with once I get a free moment…

Doug.

From: Michael Scharf <eclipse@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: Michael Scharf <eclipse@xxxxxxxxx>, Discussions about the IDE <ide-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, May 4, 2015 at 9:18 AM
To: Discussions about the IDE <ide-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [ide-dev] Interesting way of laying out editor tabs

On 2015-05-03 16:59, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:

On 1 May 2015, at 21:39, Doug Schaefer wrote:

I’ve been playing with VS Code for a little bit. It’s really basic at the moment. But one feature that caught my eye is how it organizes the list of open editors. It doesn’t use tabs like a lot of IDEs do. Instead, it keeps a list of open editors in the “Project Explorer” equivalent, as the top element of the tree.

got a screenshot ?

Now I often have 10+ editors open at a time and it’s a nightmare to manage them with the tabs. You can never find the editor you want, even once the MRU battle concluded, it’s still too hard.

I find Cmd+E and Cmd+3 pretty good at showing the list of recent files and if I could I would go for getting back my real estate rather than need another view. Would it be something better integrated into project explorer as a top level node in projects instead of a new view ?

/max

I might give this a try once Mars is done and maybe create an Opened Editors view that can be placed just above the Project/Package Explorer to see how well this works. Has anyone seen a plug-in that does that already?

Doug.
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