@JonB said in Multiple Tab support:Qt Creator:
@mrjj said in Multiple Tab support:Qt Creator:
and ctrl +K is so much better than tabs.
wtf does Ctrl+K do? :)
It opens the "Locator" which lets you search for practically anything with a few keystrokes, see https://doc.qt.io/qtcreator/creator-editor-locator.html
To explain the idea a bit (and mostly repeat what others have said here):
Tabs do not scale beyond a few dozen files. It's not an efficient way to handle non-trivially sized projects. If you really need to see the names of your open files on screen to be able to jump around using mouse, you can use the "Open Documents" view. That's kind of similar to "vertical tabs". And also doesn't scale well beyond a few dozen files.
And there are better ways to navigate around a project. I found it useful to forget about the notion of "open files": The main entity is the project. Files are part of a project, and file contents is important. Whether the files themselves are "open" in some not directly visible buffer (accessed by tabs or otherwise) does not really matter for the project, nor for the contents, and is really secondary when you can jump to the right file when needed. At this time you have a context, like "Usages of symbol X" or "Definition of class Y" or such, i.e. you are already at a mention of X or Y. From there it typically takes just one of the navigation shortcut to "open" the file.
It is really rare that one sit in fronts of the project and then thinks "I need to go to file abc.cpp" without further context. And even then, that's just Ctrl+K + some unique bits of "abc.cpp". Which is in all non-trivial projects faster than optically scanning through tabs, perhaps handle "overflown tabs" etc.
