Description Marc 2013-05-18 12:59:23 EDT

I tend to have many, many editor tabs open. It just happens as you are developing.
The way Eclipse handles tab switching is costing a lot of productivity, however.
If you have 50 tabs open and you are focusing your efforts on two of them, you want to be able to switch between them very easily (preferably with a keyboard combination). This means that your recently most used tabs should be the tabs that you see on top of your editor.

This is not the case. What this means in practice, also because common keyboard combination SHIFT+TAB, SHIFT+CTRL+TAB doesn't work as in most editors (switch between open documents), every time you switch to document 1 and want to go back to document 2, you have to click the document pulldown and find the document in the list (also not easy, because it's not alphabetical).

I propose that the tabs visible on top of your editor are your most recently edited documents in the last 30 minutes.