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EG (24.07.2001 20:55:19) I often want to close all open editors with the exception of the one I'm currently working on. There is currently no way to do this efficiently. NOTES:
One should be able to select which editors to choose. Either a) "Close all" should be "Close all..." -- pops up a dialog (s. b.) regardless of dirty editors or not. b) New menu item called "Close selected..." (one should be able to select several editors, i.e. their tabs, which one cannot do at the present time, for this menu item name) or "Close several..." which pops up a new dialog (s. b.). I would prefer b). The dialog should be similar to present "Close all"-dialog but with the following changes: @@@@ "Close Resources?" "Select the resources to close:" List with checkbox items for all open editors/resources. Button "Select All" Button "Deselect all" Checkbox "Save resources before close." Button "Yes" Button "No" Button "Cancel" @@@@ In "Window/Preferences/Workbench" should be an option "Save all modified resources automatically prior to close" @@@@ Sebastian Davids
See bug 2661. We have added the "Switch Editor Dialog" in the Windows menu. Any feedback is appreciated.
See Window->"Switch to Editor"
This is definitly an improvement, but it is awkward having to manually select all the editors. I'd like to have a more direct way to do this action since it is a frequent one. I suggest to add a Close All Except Active in the pop-up menu that appears in the editor's tabl. Another improvement is to provide an option to close all editors except the pinned ones. I usualy carefully pin the editors in my "working set" there is no easy way to close all editors except the pinned ones. Notices there is no indicator in the Switch to Editor dialog for pinned editors.
1) What about two buttons in the "Switch to Editor" dialog: a) Select All Except Active Editor; b) Select All Except Pinned Editors; c) Indicated pinned editors in the dialog 2) I am interested to know why you have to frequently close editors. One of idea of "editors reuse" is to minimize that. Have you tried changing the preference settings "number of editor opened before reusing"? Maybe we should change de default to 4 or 5.
Added 2 buttons to the dialog: - Select all clean editors. - Invert selection.
With the invertSelection button in the editors dialog, close all but active operation becomes simpler: i) Open the dialog (Ctrol+Shift+W) ii) Click invert selection iii) Click closed selected editors.
It would be nice to have Erich's suggestion from #4 "Close All Except Active" also.
