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[Glaiel-Gamer]

Maybe it's just cause I'm a mac person, but I've never really liked tabs that much. I rarely use them when browsing, I hate adobe products forcing all the documents into tabs, I like xcode's lack of tabs.

OSX handles multiple windows very nicely with expose and junk and I've always found that a lot nicer than multiple tabs in one window.

[nitram_cero (2bam)]

I agree, besides, the tab adding algorithm makes it so I can never find the file I'm looking for in the tabs (Except when I have a low file count)  .

I don't really mind tabs, they're just there and I usually don't use them.

[Kekskiller]

I like tabs. Even if it's just used for some kind of simplistic overview.

[14113]

I find tabs both useful and annoying. Useful in that I don't have to manage multiple windows, but annoying in the way the programs I use organise them.

[Jason Bakker]

Tools > Options > Environment > Documents > [X] Reuse current document window, if saved

At least in Visual Studio 2008. Not sure about other IDEs/versions. I would think a similar option is somewhere in the scary dark corners of the app settings. I will admit not having a new tab button is mildly annoying, but hitting space on the active document if it has not been edited to get a couple tabs open to play with is minor inconvenience.

A bit less minor if you're using source control, unless you're talking abut pressing space, opening the new tab, tabbing BACK to the previous tab to undo your space and saving that, then tabbing forward again to get to the tab you wanted to get to in the first place?

Thanks for the info though, I'm only using 2005 at the moment, but I'll file that option away for future reference when I upgrade...

[Ann Ishman]

Source Control doesn't complicate things all that much. After enabling that option:

• Starting with a blank editor, project open with no tabs, open any old file and make a meaningless change to the file (checking it out first if applicable) such as hitting space or adding an empty comment - editing the file.
• Open any other random file while the edited file is the active tab which will give you two tabs.
• Go back to the edited file tab and repeat the previous step opening different files until you have as many tabs as you like (I like 6 or so).
• Once you have as many tabs open as you like go back to the edited file and undo your check out. (This last step isn't really necessary unless trivial differences bother you in your version history. The better control systems will usually not even bother adding the file if only a space has been added anyway.)

Luckily VS will leave the tabs open next time you open the project so I find myself doing this only with new projects or the odd time I close a tab out of habit. Oddly enough the length of this explanation makes it seem much more complicated than it really is. Once you get it, doing the steps above takes all of 5 seconds to complete.

[artanis]

Tools > Options > Environment > Documents > [X] Reuse current document window, if saved

At least in Visual Studio 2008. Not sure about other IDEs/versions. I would think a similar option is somewhere in the scary dark corners of the app settings. I will admit not having a new tab button is mildly annoying, but hitting space on the active document if it has not been edited to get a couple tabs open to play with is minor inconvenience.

Thanks for the info though, I'm only using 2005 at the moment, but I'll file that option away for future reference when I upgrade...

The same option exists in VS 2005.