Re: UI feature request: Tabs

[Christopher Stone]

On Dec 28, 2012, at 18:02, ahmad.alhash...@gmail.com wrote:
> I would like to request showing currently open files in tabs as a UI feature.
> ...
> Thoughts?

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Hey There,

I think you're beating a dead horse.

Try searching the archives for tabs.

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Re: UI feature request: Tabs

[Fritz Anderson]

I think you should read the last three lines of this email, and file a feature 
request at the address they contain.

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On 28 Dec 2012, at 6:02 PM, ahmad.alhash...@gmail.com wrote:

> I would like to request showing currently open files in tabs as a UI feature.
> 
> This is follow up on a short discussion I had with the person behind @BBEdit 
> on Twitter.
> 
> ~~
> @bbedit: File list instead of tabs is a conscious choice -- have you ever 
> opened 100 documents at once, and tried to deal with tabs?
> 
> @ahmadh: that's a theoretical concern because tabs have been successfully 
> implemented in every text editor other than BBEdit and Notepad.exe.
> 
> @bbedit: Not theoretical. No editor can "successfully" display dozens of open 
> documents in tabs. Good topic for http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit/  
> though.
> ~~
> 
> There might be a significant number of people who's workflow does not involve 
> having dozens of files simultaneously open in the same window. My personal 
> workflow involves opening and juggling a handful of tabs for the current task 
> I'm working on and relying on the project/filesystem list on the right to 
> access the rest of my documents.
> 
> My case for tabs is:
> * Tabs have become a standard UI element for managing multiple open 
> documents. We're already trained to understand them and use them all the 
> time, thanks to modern browsers.
> 
> * Tabs provide a quick visual reminder of which part of the project you're 
> working on right now after you step away from the window for a minute to 
> answer a phone call or for a few hours to respond to that tweet. The list of 
> currently opened files on the sidebar is difficult to spot quickly because it 
> is visually indistinguishable from the project file list.
> 
> * Tabs' less compact design lends itself to easier visual identification of 
> the currently active tab and easier mouse selection of a particular tab.
> 
> I realize that the current solution is technically superior. But there must 
> be a reason why this feature is standard in every modern text editor in the 
> market. For an editor that is trying to be the grand daddy of all text 
> editors with tons of preferences, such a ubiquitous feature is glaringly 
> missing.
> 
> A clever solution might be displaying open documents as tabs, space allowing, 
> then automatically reverting to the drop down menu when someone opens "100 
> documents" or "dozens of documents" at once.
> 
> Thoughts?
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UI feature request: Tabs

[ahmad . alhashemi]

I would like to request showing currently open files in tabs as a UI 
feature.

This is follow up on a short discussion I had with the person behind 
@BBEdit on Twitter.

~~
@bbedit: File list instead of tabs is a conscious choice -- have you ever 
opened 100 documents at once, and tried to deal with tabs?

@ahmadh: that's a theoretical concern because tabs have been successfully 
implemented in every text editor other than BBEdit and Notepad.exe.

@bbedit: Not theoretical. No editor can "successfully" display dozens of 
open documents in tabs. Good topic for 
http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit/  though.
~~

There might be a significant number of people who's workflow does not 
involve having dozens of files simultaneously open in the same window. My 
personal workflow involves opening and juggling a handful of tabs for the 
current task I'm working on and relying on the project/filesystem list on 
the right to access the rest of my documents.

My case for tabs is:
* Tabs have become a standard UI element for managing multiple open 
documents. We're already trained to understand them and use them all the 
time, thanks to modern browsers.

* Tabs provide a quick visual reminder of which part of the project you're 
working on right now after you step away from the window for a minute to 
answer a phone call or for a few hours to respond to that tweet. The list 
of currently opened files on the sidebar is difficult to spot quickly 
because it is visually indistinguishable from the project file list.

* Tabs' less compact design lends itself to easier visual identification of 
the currently active tab and easier mouse selection of a particular tab.

I realize that the current solution is technically superior. But there must 
be a reason why this feature is standard in every modern text editor in the 
market. For an editor that is trying to be the grand daddy of all text 
editors with tons of preferences, such a ubiquitous feature is glaringly 
missing.

A clever solution might be displaying open documents as tabs, space 
allowing, then automatically reverting to the drop down menu when someone 
opens "100 documents" or "dozens of documents" at once.

Thoughts?

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Re: Syntax errors with correctly coded image map

[G. T. Stresen-Reuter]

This is very close to being a bug report that should be sent to 
supp...@barebones.com. All you're missing is:

- The version of BBEdit
- The version of your OS
- Steps to reproduce
- Expected Behavior (you've already described the actual behavior).

You'd be doing us all a favor if you'd kindly submit the bug report with the 
missing pieces. Posting the info here, although it may help someone befuddled 
by the same unexpected behavior, won't likely get the behavior changed in a 
future version.

Best of luck.

Ted Stresen-Reuter
(kind of happy I had the opportunity to use the word "befuddled" in writing!)

On Dec 28, 2012, at 7:59 PM, mmgh wrote:

> When checking the syntax of a HTML document that includes an image map, 
> BBEdit 10.5.1 incorrectly lists errors of the type:
> :9: Value of attribute “usemap” for element “” must begin with one of 
> {A-Z,a-z} followed by zero or more of {A-Z,a-z,0-9,-,_,:,.}.
> :12: Document type does not permit element “” in content of element 
> “”.
> :12: Value of attribute “coords” for element “” is invalid; Value must 
> be one of {“Circle, Polygon, Rectangle”}.
> 
> When changing the DOCTYPE from HTML 5 to HTML 4.01 Transitional the errors 
> disappear.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>   
>   Untitled
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>  usemap="#planetmap">
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Syntax errors with correctly coded image map

[mmgh]

When checking the syntax of a HTML document that includes an image map, 
BBEdit 10.5.1 incorrectly lists errors of the type:
:9: Value of attribute “usemap” for element “” must begin with one of 
{A-Z,a-z} followed by zero or more of {A-Z,a-z,0-9,-,_,:,.}.
:12: Document type does not permit element “” in content of element 
“”.
:12: Value of attribute “coords” for element “” is invalid; Value 
must be one of {“Circle, Polygon, Rectangle”}.

When changing the DOCTYPE from HTML 5 to HTML 4.01 Transitional the errors 
disappear.





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