Limit on number of files opened in tabs

[Joachim Lous]

discuss-bounces at nedit.org wrote:

> No good- I could live with the look, but if I'm editing files with
> long names, the fact the the menu list is now twice as wide as before
> means that the menu is now wider than the screen, so that I can't see
> the right edge of the list. Of course there are no horizontal
> scroll-bars, just as there are no vertical ones...

Well, until an embedded solution appears:
Just use your favourite external file manager.

(typically as a single-column, small-or-no icon list along the
side of your screen).  If you set up to use "nc" as the launch
command for the relevant file types, re-lauching an already
opened file will simply raise that window, which is the goal
here. If you use several dirs, keep a fileman window open for
each.

I work a lot like this on Windows projects that are not well
suited for Visual Studio: just a file window and TextPad. It
is actually quite a comfortable way of working. You don't see
which files are already open, but why should you need to, or
even care? In either case you can just click what you want to
see, and you get it.

If it's a good file manager it will let you sort by name or
type and maybe even filter the wiew. It's the way GUI
environments were meant to be used.

-Joachim.