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When working with medium-sized to large projects, the tab-area quickly fills up with related and unrelated source files and more and more get hidden and move into the MRU-tab (a very handy feature btw, esp. the live-search!). As these hidden files take up space and time when loading Eclipse, and the visible files are usually the most actively worked on, it would be handy if the MRU-tab offered a way to close all hidden tabs, cleaning up the workspace a bit.
The request is reasonable given the notion that the visible tabs are the most often used, so get rid of the "older" tabs. I am hesitant to add more menu items in the MRU list itself, all we have is "Close" for the selected. That is, need to be careful around overloading what you can do in what is just a lightweight dropdown list. Perhaps yet another menu in the tab area itself, we have "Close Others" so could have "Close Others not Visible" or something.
(In reply to comment #0) > As these hidden files take up space and time when loading Eclipse I would consider it a bug if non-visible tabs have a noticeable effect on startup time. We don't materialize editors that are not visible.
Would it help if we enabled the 'close' action for a multi-selection in the drop-down? The non-visible tabs are listed first, followed by the tabs that are visible.
Thanks for evaluating this one - it's definitely not a big issue but maybe not an uncommon use case (eventually I guess a good solution will be Mylyn). re Boris: you are right, it is more a perceived overhead and I prefer a clean workspace,-) However I don't know how to multi-select tabs or files in the MRU (?) re Kevin: You are absolutely right regarding MRU-overload, I actually ment the shortcut menu on the tab bar. I'd find an additional menu item "Close hidden" the most intuitive solution, although that would make up 4 Close-items...
(In reply to comment #4) > I'd find an additional menu item "Close hidden" > the most intuitive solution, although that would make up 4 Close-items... Yeah, all we'd missing is "Close Random", which now that I think about it, describes how most people think the visible tab algorithm works :)
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Remy is now responsible for watching the [EditorMgmt] component area.
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