Sublime Forum

**vim** · January 13, 2016, 6:07am

i use the tabs a lot, it would be nice to have the ability to pin tabs, so they won’t disappear as i continue to open files.

**sepehr** · January 13, 2016, 7:32am

+1

**mnaoumov** · January 13, 2016, 8:19am

I would like to see the ability to pin tabs and prevent them from closing

**rob49152** · January 13, 2016, 8:20am

I’d also like the ability to pin tabs so you can’t close them. Also maybe shrink them as well!

I usually have my first tab of a project a TODO tab using the Plaintasks package. Having it as large as the other tabs makes it get in the way sometimes. Same with another tab I have being a sort of scratch pad where I can move code out to a temporary holding place.

**Fwagra** · January 13, 2016, 8:25am

+1

**aliciaj** · January 13, 2016, 8:26am

+1

**imocoder** · January 13, 2016, 8:26am

+1

**pitti** · January 13, 2016, 8:26am

+1

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**Fwagra** · January 13, 2016, 8:39am

+2

**thedotwriter** · January 13, 2016, 8:39am

+100! I always have a few tabs used to take some notes, it would be great to have them pinned! I hope someone will work on that soon.

**iamntz** · January 13, 2016, 8:39am

But there is a plugin!

Take a look at this awesome one: (ST3) TabsExtra

**Unopoo** · January 13, 2016, 8:43am

yeah, that would be a very cool feature! just like chrome does, pin tab is very useful, and I think it has to be shrinked like in chrome when being pinned.

just hope the developer of sublime could think about it seriously, or somebody can create a plugin for this functionality.

**wirelesscord** · January 13, 2016, 8:57am

LockTab is available in the package control: a shortcut to put the tab into a “locked” state, tab can’t be closed (dialog optional) until unlocked, no visual tab shrinking/reordering.

**xeno** · January 13, 2016, 9:00am

+1

**Sascha** · January 13, 2016, 9:00am

+1

Locking is nice… but to shrink them too, would be nicer.

**wo0dyn** · January 13, 2016, 9:05am

+1

**hardik1705** · November 10, 2016, 6:21am

first install package and in package write LockTab and enjoy t

**math2001** · November 11, 2016, 3:37am

Hi!

Don’t want to ruin everything, but: why would you want to pin some tab

Do you know the goto anything? try: ctrl+p.

Something important to know: there is an editor that do not use tabs: (zeed)[http://zedapp.org]

i recommend reading this page: why did they create zed

Matt

**StephenS** · April 19, 2021, 12:18pm

+1 for it to be a native feature that would display the tab small like in a browser.

I’ve tried https://packagecontrol.io/packages/TabsExtra but it closes the tab on the second run of close other tabs.

I found that https://packagecontrol.io/packages/LockTab doesn’t have this issue and is more customisable.

Pin tabs