Limit on number of files opened in tabs

[Thorsten Haude]

Hi,

* Offer Kaye wrote (2004-08-10 15:02):
>On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:08:45 +0200 (MEST), Joerg Fischer wrote:
>>
>> You didn't studied the tabs feature in more detail, yet.
>
>Yes I did, I just wasn't clear enough in my original question, sorry.

Please let us know if any part of the documentation is not crystal
clear. Ideally, there should be no question left after reading it.
Tabs are a new feature however, so there is probably a lot missing.


>I know I can tear off the Windows menu (just like any other menu), but
>it still only shows some of the names (more than 40 or so files open,
>with my screen resolution and font sizes - YMMV), not all, and no
>scroll-bars or any other way to get to the "hidden" names.

My window manager allows to move a window without using the border
elements. This would only be a crutch of course.


>> Furthermore, you don't need to open
>> all the files in the same window, but you can group them
>> on many windows - notice that this means in the same instance
>> of nedit, ie, you needn't run nedit several times.
>
>Unless I can specify this from the command line, this is not
>practical.

I think -group is supposed to help here.


>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 seem to remember that there was a patch around for wrapping menus.


Thorsten
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