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I love the way that NB 6 allow for multiple editor windows (as in top level frames) that each have their own editor tabs in them. This is fantastic, however I don't think they work as people would expect. I am using the build from 2007080300000. First, if I right click on the tab bar and do "Close All Documents", I would not expect documents open in another editor window to close, which they do now. Next, if I am in an java file and I ctrl-click to open another source file, I would expect that it would open it in the same window I am working in, not only in the main NB window. At first when I did this, I thought nothing happened. Third, it would be awesome if I could decide where to open a file. Now, if I open a file from the Projects tab, it always opens in the main NB editor. In fact, even if have another window open and I drag files from the projects tab to it, they will still open only in the main NB window. The window dialog (opened from shift-F4) should probably be more multi-window savvy as well.
I was talking to a colleague here and I realized I was somewhat in error. If I ctrl-click a file, it will open the document in the correct window unless it is already opened. This is a subtle thing, and I can understand why would made the choice you did. I know that in NB 5.5.1, you could have to views open to the same document. I think I would expect / prefer that it would open it again in the window I am currently focused on, even if it is open in another window. I guess "Close all documents" in an undocked editor window would be just like closing the frame. However, the reason I mentioned it was because now there is now way to easily close all the document in the main NB window. It is possible from the "Documents" dialog, but as I mentioned earlier, there is no way to distinguish which documents are in which window in that dialog. As an aside: I have been unable to dock other items (like the navigator) into an external editor. As a standalone window I can, but not into an open editor. Is this possible? If so, then the "Close all documents" would not be a superfluous action in an external editor window.
Reassigning to "core".