pinned tabs

Jaroslav Petráš

What on earth is the point of adding a pin tab functionality when tabs still scroll horizontally, and if there are too many, they’re not visible anyway?

Alan Kilborn

@Jaroslav-Petráš said:

…when tabs still scroll horizontally, and if there are too many, they’re not visible…

I’ll go out on a limb and say most users have the tab bar set to the (non-default) Multi-line mode:

But… it is a bit awkward that, default out of the box, non-multiline tab bar and pinned tabs are default (advocate for changing default state to “multiline” tabs).

Jaroslav Petráš

@Alan-Kilborn Thank you for the hint, but this is not something I want, I DO NOT want the tab bar set to multi-line. In addition, this not a solution - pinned tabs e.g. in browsers do not scroll away and this is what I would like to have and this is what would make the pinned tabs meaningful

Alan Kilborn

@Jaroslav-Petráš said:

I DO NOT want the tab bar set to multi-line

Your choice. :-)

@Jaroslav-Petráš said:

pinned tabs e.g. in browsers do not scroll away and this is what I would like to have and this is what would make the pinned tabs meaningful

I guess what you have to do is, first, decide exactly what you want (I think you have decided this, but you have to think of how you’d completely describe it for others, in terms of how things currently work, and how you want to see things work), and second, put that in a feature request for Notepad++; see the FAQ for tips on doing that.

datatraveller1

I too am still struggling to understand the usefulness of the new pinned tabs feature.
My first thought was that the pinned tabs are a list of pinned files - something like the list of recently opened files, but a permanent list of important files that are frequently opened - however all pinned tabs have disappeared after closing the editor.

I’ve switched off the new function for now, but if other people like it, I’m happy and it’s fine.

Alan Kilborn

@datatraveller1 said in pinned tabs:

all pinned tabs have disappeared after closing the editor.

That sound like a bug.

Lycan Thrope

@datatraveller1 ,
@Alan-Kilborn is right, if what you’re describing is true, although even after enabling the “Exit on Close the last tab” in the preferences dialog, I couldn’t reproduce your issue, so unless you didn’t enable the pin tab feature, and then click the pin, I don’t see how this could have happened. I tried several different variants of it, and couldn’t do it.

Even though I agree with you on trying to see the value of this feature, other than to keep a document pinned and to the left, and unable to be moved once it’s pinned, I see no other value of it for me. If people want it for some reason, good for them, it’s implemented, and fortunately, you also have the option to disable it, so…the OP’s statement to me, seems to exemplify excessive conditions.

I seldom have so many files open that they scroll off the screen, and frankly I find that kind of tab/file poor management and chaotic in nature. Between the File->Recent Files and the View->Document List features, I don’t see the purpose of having excessive amounts of files open at one time. Even assuming one has a header file open, and multiple dependent files open to look at, this seems like bad management, to me.

Even with web development, I would expect more open applications for graphics, FTP, word processor, etc, outside of Notepad++, than mutiple files of .css files, .html files, maybe scripts, etc inside of Notepad++ that wouldn’t be better off being managed (open/closed as needed) by using the Recent Files or Document List features or even the Project Panel or Folder As Workspace views to help manage a set of files in a project. I know some people work differently than perhaps I would, but it seems that excessive amounts of open files would lead to nothing more than confusion, accidental closures (which Pin Tab helps with) or editing the wrong file…etc. Might be just me though. :-)