Hi,
I would like to add the possibility for new editor's tabs to be added before/after the current tab, since I'm often annoyed by tabs added far from my working one. This is quite easy to do, but I have some questions about how to make this a preference.
Currently, the tab positioning (before/after all other tabs) is controlled by the boolean preference tab_order_ltr. Fine, but not to extend it. Then, I see two ways to go: 1. Change this to an integer (or something) that represent an enumeration: before all, before current, after all, after current. 2. Add a second preference to choose whether the tabs are added before/after the current or all tabs.
I think that 1 is probably a little better from the user's point of view (not sure), but it would probably be a pain to implement, because it would need to change the type of a preference... the problem is to keep compatibility with previous configuration version.
2 is then probably the way to go; the pref UI could even hide the complexity. But then, some question comes to my mind: a. Which name give to this preference? b. How to show it to the user?
Then as usual, I ask for your wise answers :) And as a bonus question, what do you think of the feature?
Thanks! Colomban
PS: I join a proposed implementation that lacks the preference but works fine (as far as I can think/say/see).