Limit on number of files opened in tabs

Scott J. Tringali scott.tringali at etnus.com
Tue Aug 10 15:26:21 CEST 2004


Offer Kaye wrote:

> Final point, I think NEdit is great, and I totaly agree if you think
> that having 50 or so open files at once is an edge case that few users
> will encounter. But it's still there, and I'm pretty sure other people
> like to work with many open files at once. Plus, I think trying to
> solve this would help in ordinary cases as well, such as having the
> ability to choose several names at once from the Windows list...

Scrolling tabs IMO are an abomination, but we could do something like
use a multiple rows of tabs, over some certain amount.  Somewhere around
15-20 tabs they are too small to be useful, and I'd prefer a second row
rathen than more little bitty tabs.

Of course, opening 300 files in one editor isn't very practical, even if
you could see them all.  Better to use "-group" to put a few in each
window.  (I just love this feature, and how it all restores properly
from a session restart.  That is awesome, TK.)

As for the Window menu, the typical way to handle large amount of file
is to have the first N, followed by a "More...".  That brings up a
dialog box with a scrollable list of all the file names.  (If it was
modeless, you could leave it up all the time.)



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