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During release M3/M4 we saw the addition of an editor pane widget that listed all open editors. I hated it for 30 minutes and then grew to love it. Can we get it back? For all _sorts_ of UI design reasons it's a good idea. The ideal, of course, would be individual window controls + editor list widget.
You get it with Ctrl+F6, keeping Ctrl pressed.
Ctrl-F6 pops up a window that lists all the open editors. Selecting one changes the active editor to the newly selected entry. This is not the same as the widget that I am talking about. That widget was much better for two reasons: 1) It allowed the selection of several windows at a time 2) It allowed you to close (or perform other actions) on all of the selected windows. Perhaps if the Ctrl-F6 popup could be modified to select multiple windows and then Shift-F10 would pop-up an action window?
Ctrl+F6 (Ctrl+Shift+F6) is used to quickly navigate between editors (kinda like Alt + Tab on MS Windows). Ctrl+Shift+W is used to "managed" the open editors (spanning multiple window if desired). There you can select multiple editors to close them. Its a dialog. Jared Burns (if you search the newsgroup or eclipse wiki site) has contributed a plugin that provides an editor list view. The workbench also had one for experimental purposes during the 2.1 development cycle but was turned off prior to 2.1 shipping. You can look at bug 31564 for tips on how to turn this back on...but it is NOT supported by the UI team, so you are on your own. Editor management is on the 3.0 plan to be look at again. We learn many interesting things with the work we did during 2.1 plus with some of the usuability tests we did.
