Bug 37448

Summary: [EditorMgmt] Auto close inactive files
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: jerrett <jerrett>
Component: UIAssignee: Simon Arsenault <simon_arsenault>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3    
Version: 2.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Whiteboard:

Description jerrett CLA 2003-05-09 14:09:17 EDT 
Since the navigator shows a list of all the files you are working on, i find i 
never use the tabs of "open files" on top of the active file.  A result of 
this, is that files just keep getting opened.. 

a possible solution could be to have an option to automaticly close inactive 
files.. so whenever you switch to another file, if the file you switched FROM 
is SAVED, close it. If it's unsaved, it would be left open.

also, to compliment this, an option to hide the 'active files' tabs 
completely, would be nice :) 

thanks
Comment 1 Rafael Chaves CLA 2003-05-12 10:03:40 EDT 
Moving to platform/ui.
Comment 2 Simon Arsenault CLA 2003-05-12 12:21:19 EDT 
There is already a preference "Close editors automatically" in Workbench > 
Editors preference page that does this.