Well, it's not the drawer I miss so much as the ability to get one- click access to all open files in a project. The BBEdit 10 project window's Currently Open Documents section only shows 8 files without scrolling (or is there a way to configure its size?), so once you have a lot of files open you'll need 2 clicks and a scroll to select another file via either the document menu or file list, rather than a single click in the old documents drawer. Not a huge difference, but slightly less handy than the previous version.
The limited size of Currently Open Documents also means that you can no longer necessarily get an at-a-glance view of the modification status of all your open files. The drawer was of course scaled to the size of its associated window, but a reasonable window size could accommodate a drawer holding 20+ documents. It's true that this status information is displayed in the Project section of the file list, but that's not as visually concise as the flat list in Currently Open Documents (or the old drawer). Also (and this seems like a bug), if you collapse and expand the folder containing an open file, its status indicators disappear. I do like having the recent file listing and scratchpad access in the new project window, but I think the list of open documents needs more real estate. Or perhaps an option to relocate to the top of the file list to give it more space? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at <http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en> If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit>
