Stop Tabs Moving
I tend to have a lot of editor tabs open and I like to be able to keep them in rows and also keep track of them.
However, PyCharm seems to always bring the active tab's row to the lowest position (i.e. if I navigate to a tab in the highest row, that row moves to the bottom, just above the editor pane).
Is there any way to stop this??
However, PyCharm seems to always bring the active tab's row to the lowest position (i.e. if I navigate to a tab in the highest row, that row moves to the bottom, just above the editor pane).
Is there any way to stop this??
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Perhaps this is something which could be changed? I'm not sure why the tabs should move around anyway.... To me, it seems unnecessary.
I agree with Irwingeorge, especially working in multiple projects across the day, its just extremely annoying to refocus and NOT see the tab (and click) where you expect it is just not helpful. not sure who designed that feature, or more important for “what reasoning” as I doubt any developer would have “requested” this feature, nor would any developer bring this to a business and says, YES that's why i want that app…
It could be helpful sometimes to use the “Save & Load” context feature, which allows you to make the editor tabs along with the file tree structure the desired state whenever needed
Its interesting, and speakes volumes, you don't respond to my comment in full. Basically reading this is not a desired feature by developers but an internally guided one. The save & load is not helping, as cached status(.idea) is already there, and is maintaining information like open tabs, and the Save & load would only be helpful if i switch projects in the same instance, which is not common, as its just not very helpful when switching (as mentioned) throughout the day. So just to confirm the Save & Load is only there because you (the app) wants to make changes that are not desired/requested/instantiated by the user, and therefor i have to now manually take action. Do you see how backwards that is?
Could you please share the steps and maybe a sample project for us to reproduce it?
I attempted to reproduce with below steps:
1. Open 19 files(tabs) in one project, tabs are displayed in three rows.
2. Click on one tab(like the first tab) to make it active, and this selected tab didn't jump to the bottom.
3. Open another project in this windows/new window, restart PyCharm and repeat for several times, the active tab still stays the same as step2.
My Environment:
PyCharm 2023.2.3 (Professional Edition) + MacOS 13.2.1