Eclipse: nested editor tabs?

Question

Does anyone know of a method (or an external plugin) that would allow you to insert editor tabs? It would be nice to be able to group related open files into your own "master" tabs, but I'm not sure if this is possible. Any ideas?

Answer 1

This is completely unobvious, and I discovered it by accident, but ...

If you click on the tab and start dragging it down, then after you type more than half in the editor panel, a horizontal line will appear. Release it, and now you will have two different editor panels, each with document tabs. Now you can drag tabs up and down between two panels to view different documents at the same time.

I think as close as possible.

Answer 2

I think the best you can do now is “Window-> New Window,” and then use each new window as a separate “tab” for related editors. I do not agree.

This is a cool idea, especially if you have shortcuts or something that opens groups of editors with a single command.

Answer 3

This is definitely not possible in the current RCP. You may be able to create an editor component that created CTabFolder and is delegated to other editor components, but I'm not sure how well this works.

Answer 4

There are prospects in Eclipse that you can use to achieve something close, they are more global, though ...

But I agree with you, I also liked this feature! It would also be very useful when editing many files with the same name, but from different packages, because now it's a mess> _ <

Answer 5

For me, the usefulness of such a function is to reduce context switching time. I am working on Project A, I have many editors open, now I need to abandon this and work on Project B. I want all editors to open related to Project A, but hide them while I work on B. When I ' m executed with B, I can find a suitable place where I stayed in A, without having to find and open all these files again; I can even leave them unsaved for an indefinite period, since Juno never crashes! :)

I used the "New Window" function, and it’s great, but a lot of configuration is required in a new window (I don’t need to close the views, move the material to where I want, open the views that I opened in the old window, etc.), before I can get to work. It also uses a lot more memory than a simple group of tabs, as it seems to be a complete new copy of Eclipse.

The split-window function is great and I use it all the time. These are really groups of tabs, and if there is a way to hide a group of tabs and for each group of tabs you have your own list of tabs (the thing you get when you press "→ 5" so you can see that you have open editors that don't match tab header), it would completely fill the bill.