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About "Groups"

#1

Hi.

Whenever I do something like opening Sublime’s preferences, the key bindings of some package like Terminus or whatever, Sublime opens a default state unmodifiable file and a user configurable file in a side-by-side view.

I find it more comfortable to have them in an up-and-down manner, so I go to Alt -> View -> Groups -> Max Columns: 1 and that seems to fix it.

However, if I close Sublime, open it again and open the preferences again, they’re once more opened in a side-by-side view.

How can I make it so Sublime defaults to this “Max Columns: 1” option for Groups?

Also, how can I make it so when opening a new document, Sublime won’t just open a new Group on its own?

To put an example, if I open Sublime’s preferences, then close the whole window and open a new document again, it starts with a group (side-by-side, not up-and-down) that has my file, and an empty file, forcing me to Alt -> View -> Groups -> Close Group every time (or Ctrl+Down Arrow).

Thanks!

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#2

ST remembers the last layout when it exited. So I would say the simplest way to workaround it is that don’t let the side-by-side window be the last closed window.

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#3 
	// remember_layout makes Sublime Text start with the same layout it closed
	// with. Only applies when hot_exit is disabled.
	"remember_layout": false,

May or may not be interesting to you based on other settings you might have set.

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