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Bug 89160

Summary:	Option to reuse only "run" output tabs
Product:	projects	Reporter:	curley <curley>
Component:	Ant	Assignee:	Tomas Stupka <tstupka>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	blocker	CC:	jglick, psomol
Priority:	P3
Version:	5.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:	211462
Bug Blocks:

Description curley 2006-11-11 20:31:14 UTC

On the NetBeans - Preferences menu: "Reuse Output Tabs from Finished Processes".  It would be very 
helpful if one could reuse "Compile" tabs (these are rarely useful to save) but not "Run" tabs as these are 
frequently useful to save.

Comment 1 Jesse Glick 2006-11-13 17:48:08 UTC

The issue is determining whether a call to an Ant target was in fact a
compilation or a run. Ant makes no distinction, this is purely conventional. The
only heuristic I can think of is to assume that any Ant process which opened the
input field at any point is a "run".

Comment 2 superole2 2011-02-14 12:55:42 UTC

would it be possible to have an option to reuse output tabs on a per project basis?
say I want to build several projects more or less simultaneously, but I want to keep the results of the latest build for each even if one project started its build after some other project was finished.

Comment 3 Jesse Glick 2011-02-14 20:38:29 UTC

Would be possible.

Comment 4 superole2 2012-04-19 14:12:40 UTC

Another solution could perhaps be to have the possibility to tag individual tabs to be spared from reuse. A sort of "Keep this tab" button (or right-click option).
The user would then either untag that tab or simply close it when it is no longer of interest.

Comment 5 Jesse Glick 2012-04-19 17:20:05 UTC

Yes, "pinning" output tabs has been discussed. I do not remember if there is an issue number for this.

Comment 6 Petr Somol 2012-04-20 07:00:41 UTC

the discussion started due to issue
http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=208638
and is documented at
http://wiki.netbeans.org/UEXTabReuse
AFAIK we did not reach generally agreed and implementable state yet.

Comment 7 Martin Balin 2016-07-07 08:38:02 UTC

This old bug may not be relevant anymore. If you can still reproduce it in 8.2 development builds please reopen this issue.

Thanks for your cooperation,
NetBeans IDE 8.2 Release Boss