Align Open Editor and double arrow down

[jrieken]

#6536

I understand the double arrow down action as an alternative UI to the open editor model. I would

• use the prefixes left, right, and center instead of the ~> sequence
• use the same sort order
• have the same actions (close)

[bpasero]

@jrieken can you clarify how this would work?

• are you saying that ~ shows all editors and ~left shows all editors of the left group
• are you suggesting to have a close action within quick open?
• are you suggesting to use the same sort order for navigating across all groups vs a single group?

[jrieken]

are you saying that ~ shows all editors and ~left shows all editors of the left group

No, first I suggest to not use ~, then yes left shows all editors from the left group, right all editors from the right group (corresponding to the title the Open Editors section).

are you suggesting to have a close action within quick open?

Yes, like Cmd+P is having an icon to open to the side

are you suggesting to use the same sort order for navigating across all groups vs a single group?

No, I suggest that the sorting of left/center/right groups equals the sorting of the corresponding quick open piece.

[bpasero]

+1 for making the groups more explicit in quick open and accessible.

@jrieken currently we also have ~ for showing a list of all opened editors in their spatial order (tabs like, Cmd+Alt+Tab) and then we have ~> for showing editors in their MRU order per group (corresponds to pressing Cmd+Tab). Would you still expect ~ to work as today (with maybe added close actions)?

[jrieken]

I am slowly grasping the full complexity of this. So we have (1) spatial and (2) temporal order and we have listing of editors per group (L,C,R) and of all editors (*). That make it 2x4. I wonder if we can achieve the grouping by typing. ala editors shows spatial or temporal order and the editor left keeps the order but does further filtering and likewise with another prefix for the other sort order.

[bpasero]

@jrieken well we do not show spatial order per group, and we do not show MRU order across all groups, so we have 1 spatial across all and 1 MRU per group. I like the idea of having a way to type into a group (e.g. editors to show all and editors left to search within a group). I would not think there is a strong use case for MRU order across all editors or spatial order within a group (for now at least).

[jrieken]

MRU order across all editors

Well, Cmd+P is showing that, right? I am not saying we need all of those. I am aiming for an inventory and then we might have different ideas.

[bpasero]

@jrieken Cmd+P is yet another source of navigation which does not match any of the ones we have for stacks/tabs because it is is a history of any editor you ever opened regardless of the editor being closed or not. Ctrl+Tab and Cmd+Alt+Tab get their items removed when you close an editor.

So, I think we end up having three: MRU in group, spatial across all groups and MRU in general editor history.

[bpasero]

I propose the following:

Ctrl+Tab
We allow to type something like edt <left|center|right> <name> to open a file from a group. We keep MRU sorting.

Cmd+Alt+Tab
We change this to edt <name> to pick an editor from any group. We keep spatial sorting.

Cmd+P
We do not change the behaviour from how it works today.

[bpasero]

Small update from ux meeting, we think "edt" is better than "editor" because faster to type. We already use short form "ext" for extensions.

[bpasero]

@jrieken we triggered a build if you want to verify this new behavior