Responding to this old thread.
@Scott-Sumner said:
It must not work the same for me. I am running N++ 6.7.5. If I have multiple tab bar rows (for example, 3 rows), when I click a tab in row 1 or row 2, it automatically gets moved to row 3. So it is not possible to left click only a tab in row 1 or 2 without changing its row to row 3. If I start with a tab in row three, and attempt your steps, all I seem to get is some nice jittery dancing video behavior on the tabs, but I can’t seem to make a tab in row three move up to row one or two.
The same is true for me, using N++ 7.3.2 (32 bit).
The workarounds that @glennfromiowa suggested to move a tab from one row to another all do not work for me.
Only exception: Editing the session.xml does work – but this is way too much effort when you re-order individual tabs frequently. Moving tabs freely should be something you can do on the fly… It is weird and inconsistent that I can set virtually all configuration parameters of my N++ installation from within the GUI – but for moving tabs I have to close the application and edit some XML file…
To me, it is unintuitive that tabs in a row stick together and that the row with the active tab always moves to the bottom.
Instead of tab rows forming some sort of unit I would rather think of multiline tabs as a long list of tabs that happens to line-wrap when reaching the end of the line…
I guess one can get used to this behavior, but my productivity working with N++ would definitely improve by a more intuitive implementation of drag&drop for multiline tabs… Any improvements here would be greatly appreciated.