I really enjoy working with the OPEN FILES list as an alternative to tabs, so much so that I hid my tabs using the view menu. I prefer the OPEN FILES list over the tabs bar for one reason: It’s vertically listed. Scrolling is more natural vertically. I always wanted a text editor that works like this, however I think it could be so much better in Sublime.
One thing that is killing my development flow is that this OPEN FILES list isn’t persistently visible. When I am scrolling through a large list of files in the FOLDERS list, the OPEN FILES list is located at the top of the view. This prevents me from accessing my open files like tabs. The OPEN FILES list needs to be persistent; always visible. So what are some ways we could accomplish this?
One way to solve this problem is to simply split the OPEN FILES list into it’s own view, separate from the FOLDERS list. There should be two scrollbars, one for the OPEN FILES view and one for the FOLDERS view. You should also allow the OPEN FILES view’s size to be adjustable, but never allow it to be bigger than the list it contains. Seems simple enough, and I’d be all for it!
This is an obvious solution, but I think we have room to innovate here. Multiple scrollbars can seem non-simplistic, so maybe it could be in the same scrollable view, but with some unique behavior. Keeping one scrollbar would also emphasize “This view is for files”. But how would we accomplish the same effect with only one scrollbar? Anyone have any ideas to contribute?