Hoary - gedit no longer open files in tabs by default

[Ari Torhamo]

On ke, 2005-02-23 at 07:36 +0200, Ari Torhamo wrote:
>On ke, 2005-02-23 at 07:17 +0200, Ari Torhamo wrote:
>>On ti, 2005-02-22 at 19:36 -0500, WW wrote:
>>>I prefer the new behavior.  In warty (which I am still running), if
>>>gedit is running in one
>>>workspace and you run gedit in another workspace, the running instance
>>>is moved
>>>from the old workspace to the new workspace.  *That* is really
>>>annoying. I've had to
>>>use some extra command line arguments and aliases to get gedit to
>>>behave nicely
>>>with workspaces.  I think the new convention is: files opened from
>>>within an instance of gedit
>>>get put in a new tab in that instance.  Anything else starts a new
>>>instance.  Not everyone likes
>>>this behavior, but it seems clear and consistent to me.
>>
>>
>>Perhaps it would be ideal to have a setting for this in preferences and
>>let the user decide wether to use tabs or multiple windows. I like tabs
>>because they help me to organize my desktop. The problem with workspaces
>>sounds annoying, but I think it would be desireble to have it resolved
>>independently - not by limiting a usefull feature (if possible).
>>
>>Tab concept is great, but I wish there were better keyboard shortcuts to
>>move between open tabs than Ctrl + Page Up and Ctrl + Page Down. The
>>problem with these is that when you touch type, you have to move your
>>right hand off from it's normal place on the keyboard to change between
>>tabs (it's the same with Firefox though). But I guess the current
>>keyboard layout also sets many limits for shortcuts.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Ari
>
>
>I seem to have repeated someone elses thought as if I was the first one
>to bring it up. I thought I was the first one to reply to the original
>message, but I had just accidentally collapsed the thread in Evolution
>and didn't see the other messages - sorry :-/
>
>Ari


I now this is starting to look pathetic and I should go to sleep, but I
have to correct myself once more: the shortcut to switch between tabs in
Gedit is ofcourse Alt + [tab number] and Ctrl + PageUp/PageDown in
Firefox... zzzz... ZZZZ....

Ari