Limit on number of files opened in tabs

[Offer Kaye]

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 09:26:21 -0400, Scott J. Tringali wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

I second this suggestion.

> 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.)
> 

Way cool (again)! :-)
I didn't notice this new command line feature- thanks for mentioning it!
Okay, that solves most of the problem, although it would still be nice
to be able to view all the open names in the Windows list.
But what did you mean by "how it all restores properly from a session
restart" ? What is a "session restart"?

> 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.)

That would work too. Anything would be better than the current
bug^H^H^Hfeature ;-)

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Offer Kaye