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Mario Charest

12/10/2007 1:28 PM

post3492

Is it possible to get two rows of tab in the the Editor View.  I like to have lots of open files and there is not enough
 room for all the tabs. My monitor is setup in portrait which reduces width.

- Mario

Elena Laskavaia

12/10/2007 1:36 PM

post3495

RE: Two rows

You can have more tabs than are visible.
In this case eclipse would show button with >> symbols and number of hidden
tabs. If you click on it you will see a drop down menu with all tabs.
To control number of open editors you need to edit Preferences.
Window->Preferences... General->Editors
Uncheck "Close editors automatically".


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Daniel Sperka(deleted)

12/10/2007 1:55 PM

post3496

Re: Two rows

Using CTRL-PgUp/PgDown will move you between editors (PgUp moves to tab 
LEFT of current tab, PgDown moves to tab RIGHT of current tab). If 
you're at the left-most (right-most) tab and do CTRL-PgUp (PgDown), you 
get a drop-down list of all other open editors which you can navigate 
with up/down arrows, and hit Enter to select.

I find this fairly easy to navigate and faster than using the mouse.

Dan

Elena Laskavaia wrote:
> You can have more tabs than are visible.
> In this case eclipse would show button with >> symbols and number of hidden
> tabs. If you click on it you will see a drop down menu with all tabs.
> To control number of open editors you need to edit Preferences.
> Window->Preferences... General->Editors
> Uncheck "Close editors automatically".
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UC Davis Center for Neuroscience

Mario Charest

12/12/2007 9:02 AM

post3664

Re: Two rows

Thanks for the suggestion but these aren't satisfactory to me.  

Using the CTRL-PAGE-(UP DOWN) is way to slow when there are >10 tabs.

I'm hoping someone will make that suggestion to the Eclipse group.

Thomas Fletcher

12/12/2007 1:41 PM

post3704

RE: Two rows

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mario Charest [mailto:mcharest@zinformatic.com] 
> Sent: December 12, 2007 9:03 AM
> To: general-ide
> Subject: Re: Two rows
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion but these aren't satisfactory to me.  
> 
> Using the CTRL-PAGE-(UP DOWN) is way to slow when there are >10 tabs.
> 
> I'm hoping someone will make that suggestion to the Eclipse group.

Actually .. you can participate (since QNX can push this, but it is also
a general Eclipse functionality) if you would like to and put your
comments and feedback directly in here:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=168379

You can see that there is lots of interest in different ways to 
fix this problem.

Thanks,
 Thomas ... keep on contributin'!

Mario Charest

12/12/2007 6:09 PM

post3718

Re: RE: Two rows

> 
> > I'm hoping someone will make that suggestion to the Eclipse group.
> 
> Actually .. you can participate (since QNX can push this, but it is also
> a general Eclipse functionality) if you would like to and put your
> comments and feedback directly in here:
> 
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=168379
> 

I should have known I was opening a can of worm.

> You can see that there is lots of interest in different ways to 
> fix this problem.
> 
> Thanks,
>  Thomas ... keep on contributin'!

Thomas Fletcher

12/13/2007 8:50 AM

post3734

RE: RE: Two rows

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mario Charest [mailto:mcharest@zinformatic.com] 
> Sent: December 12, 2007 6:09 PM
> To: general-ide
> Subject: Re: RE: Two rows
> 
> > 
> > > I'm hoping someone will make that suggestion to the Eclipse group.
> > 
> > Actually .. you can participate (since QNX can push this, but it is 
> > also a general Eclipse functionality) if you would like to and put 
> > your comments and feedback directly in here:
> > 
> > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=168379
> > 
> 
> I should have known I was opening a can of worm.

Yes ... but the good news is that you are not alone!  The topic
of editor management has a long and exciting political history 
within the Eclipse platform development.  It goes all the way
back to the 1.0 version where editors used to be linked to the 
perspectives.  Then in 2.0 that changed to be editors show up in 
all perspectives.  Then in 3.0 the entire look of Eclipse changed
and with that new styling came new mechanisms for dealing with 
the limited editor tab space and policies for recycling editors
that were offscreen.  Things like "re-use the same editor for
search results" started showing up in preferences etc.

So ... if you have constructive feedback, it will be well received.
Just goes to show you how coming up with a solution to a seemingly
simple problem can occupy years worth of work.

Thomas

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