Limit on number of files opened in tabs

[Nathaniel Gray]

On Aug 10, 2004, at 6:02 AM, Offer Kaye wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:08:45 +0200 (MEST), Joerg Fischer wrote:
>> You can also use the shortcuts Ctrl+PageUp/Down across these
>> windows, then. It is all described in the online help.
>>
>> Of course, there are always practical limits. That would be
>> how many files can you reasonably edit at the same time?
>> If you can do more than 300 files at the same time, I must
>> say I'm deeply impressed by your performance ;-)
>>
>
> No, I can't :-)
> But I have worked on more than 50 files at a time, and if there is no
> quick way to access them from the GUI, I think it hurts the
> functionality. Plus I think some users would find this confusing- they
> open the files, but don't see them in the list of names in the Windows
> menu. Scrollbars (or something similiar) would help.

I'm a bit confused.  Do you not see all of the names because the menu 
goes off the bottom of the screen or are they missing from the menu?  
It's bad either way, but it's worse if the names are just plain 
missing.

> 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...

For 5.5 the solution is probably "if it hurts, don't do it."  ;^)  
We're trying to do a quick release to give people tabbed editing and 
there are definitely limitations in the interface.  I don't think 
anybody's spent much time yet on the problem of having lots of files 
open or ensuring a minimum width for tabs.  These are issues that will 
definitely need to be solved but it just hasn't been done yet.  I know 
that it's not unusual for me to want to open all the .c or .ml files in 
a directory, so I personally don't consider this a freak corner case.

Cheers,
-n8

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