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I think that the logical way the NB works with projects and files is currently not sufficient. If you want to create just a file, you need to do it inside a project and this is not very flexible. Suppose this situation: You are a system admin and you are looking for some friendly editor for your shell-scripts (and you are not a vi-freak). So you decide to download the Netbeans IDE. But soon you realize you are unable to edit an "sh" files. Why? You need a project. But there is no appropriate project for sh files - so you can just create a fake java application, for example, and then place an sh file in this project. I was just thinking, that maybe it would be nice to have a "dummy project" node called "Unsorted files" (for example) where a user could create a files of any (appropriate) kind (java, sh, xml, cpp, ...). (I think it is quite crucial - NB is the only IDE I need, except I had to do these funny workarounds).
You can use Favorites window in such (to be honest) not so realistic cases ;)
:o) I see... I have never really used this "Favorites" window, as it is not enabled by default - I will look at it a bit... Verified. (I have tested this in 6.1 - it was ok to use Favorites for this purpose. But I was unable to create a file in 6.5M1+DEV for some reason, the dialog where you fill in the name never showed up - see issue 139647...)