Improvement regarding tabs overflow

[Niko Sams]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 12:35, Kishore <kitts.mailinglists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 13 Dec 2010 2:47:09 pm Niko Sams wrote:
>> Some time ago I did experiments regarding tabs in a branch "browser-like-tabs".
>> The basic idea was to make tabs behave like they do in web browsers:
>> - when you click a link the link is opened in the current tab
>> - when you press a modifier (Ctrl) and click a link the link is opened
>> in a new tab
>> - you have back and forward navigation per tab
>> - there is an explicit action for "new tab"
>> - pressing the modifier when clicking a bookmark or opening a new url
>> opens it in a new tab
>>
>> That way the user decides how to organize the opened files. Eg. one
>> tab per file he works on,
>> and one tab for browsing the code.
>
> While this is OK for just browsing, i don't see how this can work with undo/redo of edit history.
> Edit history would be lost whe the tab switches to a new document.
well, there would be two ways to solve this:
- undo across file closes implemented in katepart using swap files
- keeping the documents that where edited open

Niko