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EasterBunnyBugSmasher
EasterBunnyBugSmasher

Reputation: 1582

IntelliJ Editor Tabs: Last Recently Used

in my new team we're using IntelliJ and there is one Eclipse feature I miss very dearly:

In a usual situation I have like 20-30 files open im my editor, but there is like 2-3 that I jump around most of the time. Eclipse supported this perfectly by always having the last recently used files in my tabs open and only the rarely used ones in the overflow. IntelliJ follows the exactly opposite paradigm: The last recently used files are always in the overflow and the tabs are useless.

Is there any way to make this more comfortable? I currently have them ordered alphabetically so I can at least find them in the overflow. Unchecking that makes it even more terriblester.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 1027

Answers (3)

Bianca
Bianca

Reputation: 33

Do you mean with overflow to show your tabs in the next row? Or do you mean the one, where they get collapsed in a dropdown?

You can do the followings:

  • You can order them by hand
  • You can let intellij show you all tabs in multiple rows Intellij screenshot preview
  • you can pin tabs (press right mouse on the tab and find "pin tab"

Upvotes: 0

Koyasha
Koyasha

Reputation: 6797

You can use the following commands:

  • Ctrl + E - Recent Files list
  • Ctrl + Shift + E - Recent Locations switcher

There's also a YouTrack issue to Keep most relevant code tabs in view you can track if you want to see this option added to the IDE editor tab settings.

More information on navigating between recent locations and changes:

Upvotes: 4

Olof Hedman
Olof Hedman

Reputation: 613

I was so annoyed by the lack of this feature that I spent a day learning how to write IntelliJ plugins, and created one that keeps tabs sorted by most recently used.

You can find it here: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/21356-recent-tab-order

Upvotes: 0

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