editor tabs expected behaviour
On macos 11.6 with intellij 2021.2.2 ultimate.
"enable preview tab" is disabled.
"open files with single click" is disabled.
1. double click FileA -> opens an editor tab
2. double click FileB -> replaces FileA editor tab with FileB
3. double click FileC -> replaces FileB editor tab with FileC
4. None of the files were modified.
5. Only have a single open editor tab.
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With those settings my expected behaviour would be that I end up with 3 editor tabs open for FileA, FileB and FileC.
Otherwise why have an explicit setting for "enable preview tab" if it functions the same without it.
I'm trying to understand what I'm missing. I would prefer my expected behaviour to work, so that I could have both options open to me depending on what I'm doing.
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What's Settings (Preferences on macOS) | Editor | General | Editor Tabs | Tab limit:?
I keep increasing it, right now it's 25, was 10. Hoping it may have been some kind of bad setting, I brought it down to 1. And then back to 10 and upwards.
Can't reproduce the described behavior if the limit is not set to 1. You can try with the default settings: File | Manage IDE Settings | Restore Default Settings...: https://i.imgur.com/kbrkC7w.png.
I have settings sync'd - do i need to disable?
Yes, disable the sync to test with the defaults.
that worked, thank you. i turned on my sync and the error came back, so it's something in my sync.
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