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ST4 opens up multiple instances of the exact same file into different tabs

#1

In ST4 you can:

  1. Create a 3 column layout for example
  2. Select the first column and open a file in it from the sidebar
  3. Select the second column and open the exact same file from the sidebar
  4. Do the same with the third column

Now you are looking at 3 instances of the exact same file. How is that even logical?

On top of that if you switch back to a single column layout, now you have 3 tabs containing the same file in a single column layout.

Is that a feature or a bug? I really don’t know.

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#2

I’d suggest opening a bug report over at https://github.com/sublimehq/sublime_text/issues if one doesn’t exist. Looks like the behavior in ST3 is to just focus the file back in column 1 if the same file was attempted to be opened in column 2 or 3.

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