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Currently when multiple files are open in the editor, the tabs for each file appears at the bottom of the editor window. 1) It would be nice if it was possible to place the tabs on the right hand side of the editor window rather. 2) It would be nice if it was possible for these to be sorted by the file name.
I just voted for this issue - but I'd like to qualify that I'm only voting for the 2nd part of this feature: sorting of tabs. The ability to display file names on the right is of no interest to me.
I don't mind this feature existing, but I don't want it to be the default. I currently use JBuilder at work, which has this feature, and I find it is annoying for the tabs to jump around every time you open something. I also don't find it makes it any easier to 'scan' to find a tab if its alphabeticalised. Since the tabs wrap (at whatever point is dictated by their width), its not easy to pick out a particular tab anyway, so I tend to open from the tree instead. In addition to that, the fact that tabs 'jump' whenever I open another file means that I can't even locate the previous tab I was working with (something I think is an advantage of Netbeans over JBuilder). I suggest that people download the community edition of JBuilder and see if they agree with me before voting for/implementing this feature.
reassigning it to core/winsys.
I think netbeans winsys solved this effectively in another way - there is small down arrow on the right hand side of documents, which lists documents alphabetically, so it's easy to orientate. Also, for keyboard users, there is Shift+F4 dialog. I consider this issue to be solved by mentioned improvements, so closing as fixed.