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Opening New Window instead of New Tab

#1

Version 4126
Windows 11 Pro build 10,0.22000

Opening an associated file whatever.txt, for example, has been opening in a new tab since forever.

I have the preference:

“open_files_in_new_window”: false,

Which seemed necessary at some time in the past.

Suddenly, a few days ago, ST began opening files in a new window instead of a new tab. Even if that file was already open - a pain when using winscp and modifying code. Suddenly there were multiple windows with the same file of different ages on top of one another.

I was about to ask for help, but decided to try harder to solve it myself, when I remembered that I had recently changed the View|Show Minimap to Hide.

So I flipped it back on. Lo and behold, proper operation returned. Files now open in a new tab again.

I switched back to Hide and it works - for now. I will see what happens later.

I am posting this for others who may have this happen to them unexpectedly and for those who wish to track down this mysterious little bug.

Hiding and Showing Minimap should not change the opening preference.

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Open files in new window (for Windows)
#2

That sounds like multiple instances of ST being run at the same time - nothing to do with the minimap. It’s not clear how that would have happened, but simply restarting ST would fix that.

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#3

It may sound like that, but I did stop all instances from the Task Manager and had rebooted the computer during the time it was misbehaving. It was happening for several days.

So, in this case, it was not multiple instances. All I can say is that the cure was instaneous, when I clicked Show MiniMap, new files opened in tabs immediately in the same window. I was testing, so no extraneous events were occurring.

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