04.16.08
help? tab spam in different IDEs?
There are a zillion graphical IDEs out there, and I really don’t want to download and try each one. I don’t even want to try twenty of them. So, dear readers, care to help me?
All the IDEs that I’ve seen have a main center panel with the source of the file you’re looking at. Above that, they seem to all have a row of tabs, one per file that you’ve opened. (Does anybody have anything different?)
Here is a link to a screenshot of Eclipse. (Sorry, it was too wide for my blog.) Eclipse puts a little “>>” to show that there are more files (as pointed to by the ugly black arrow), with the number of hidden tabs next to it (“4” in this case). Clicking on the “>>4” gives a drop-down menu (shown here in yellow).
What happens in other IDEs when you have more tabs than will fit across the horizontal width of the source file? How does your IDE handle it? Or does your IDE have a different tabbing model altogether, e.g. it opens one window per file? I would greatly appreciate hearing from you.
You can either email me ducky at webfoot dot com or post in the comments; I’ll wait a few days and then summarize in another blog posting. Remember to tell me the name of your IDE.
