Limit on number of files opened in tabs

[Joachim Lous]

discuss-bounces at nedit.org wrote:

> Funny, I always thought that multiple rows of tabs were an
>   abomination. ;^)  I do agree that itty-bitty tabs are worthless. 
> Maybe "use N rows of tabs then scroll" where N is configurable would
> work. 

I guess the tab bar widget ought to handle such cases more gracefully
than today, and those two techniques are basically the ones available.
But both of them severely reduces the usablility of tab bars, and I
know of no good way of getting around that. Tab bars are simply not
suitable fotr large numbers of items.

The proper long-term solution is to have an alternative mode with a 
vertical scrollable list, which _is_ comfortable to work
with.  Actually superior to tabs IMO (much easier to scan), unless
you mind the screen real-estate it eats (which I do if there are
only a few files). Just make it easy to switch between the two
(don't require visiting prefs menu).

The question is whether to add this mode to the current tabstrip
widget, or to use a normal list box which suits the purpouse just
fine (but might require more changes in the
rest of NEdit?).

In either case not for 5.5, but as soon as possible after that.
The current usable maximum on the tab bar really is not adequate.

-joachim