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Currently when you open a file NetBeans places it on a tab at the end of the tab list. I request that you change this behavior so that the file is placed on a tab next to the currently selected tab. The reason is best explained by the following example: Suppose you have opened the following files on each their respective tabs: |Apple|Wheel|Airplane|Chair|Pie| Let us say your currently selected tab is Apple, because you are working on fruits for the moment. Then while working on the Apple you want to check if you could reuse some code from another fruit and save some time, so you choose to open Orange. As a result you get these tabs shown: |Apple|Wheel|Airplane|Chair|Pie|Orange| Then, when looking back and forth between Apple and Orange you need to go all the way from the beginning of the long tab list to the end; alternatively you need to move each fruit you open from the end of the list and place it next to Apple. I suggest NetBeans is modified to open files next to the current file leaving us with |Apple|Orange|Wheel|Airplane|Chair|Pie| Yours Randahl Fink Isaksen
While I agree that your enhancement is valid, we have no plans to work on it currently. Leaving opened for community to work on it and provide patches, we'll highly appreciate it. From higher point of view, tastes of developers are very different when comes to tab policies, so overall such work should lead to something like "Tab mix plus" firefox addon.
How about using Ctrl + Tab, to switch between Apple & Orange, won't that save time!
At least since 7.2.1 there is an option for this RFE. See Options->Miscellaneous->Windows->New documents opens next to active document tab