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If you have a wide monitor it's extremely nice to be able to have multiple editors side by side. This is problematic though in so far as which editor newly selected files go to, as well as what happens when you close a tab. This feature would be so much more useful if each editor were treated as it's own unique editor, with it's own stacking order of files. For example, lets say I have two editors, call them A and B. In A I have A1 and A2, and in B I have B1 and B2 open. When in A, control tab should only cycle among A1 and A2, and in B, I should only be able to cycle between B1 and B2. Similarly when I select a new file it should appear in the current editor, not the first one. For example, if I'm in B and double click file B3, it should appear in B, regardless of whether or not B is the first editor. And of course I should be able to have the same file in both editors. This is extremely useful when moving chunks of code around.
I tend to agree with most of what you said, but it's rather RFE than a defect. Moreover, most people use Ctrl+Tab as "go to previous editor", regardless of what "editor bunch" they are, so this will be controversial.
I agree this is an RFE. I'm sure these change would be controversial as well. Having to enable them via a preference is fine by me.