To tab or not to tab...

[VaagOH]

Following of a topic about a new folder-bar, I was thinking of 'hotlinking' directories as well. But my way of hotlinking has a little different -imho more elegant- approach than Clo's.

He states:

Maybe an idea to carry out someone's wishes...
Please, watch this:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/charries/relais/idea.html
Thank you!
Friendly regards,
Claude
Clo

His idea is based on 'direct directory' buttons. As stated in that posting; this might be a lot of work to implement.

But I thought this can be way'neater'. A few different tab-presets, which are loaded by clicking a button in the button bar. Would save a lot of buttons compared to Clo's idea, and is much clearer then tons of single-directory buttons. Because you grouped tabs by 'genre' now.

Short how-to:
- Open a few tabs in the left pane, and a few in the right
- Set each tab to a proper directory, and give the tab the right name
- Save these tabs using "Save tabs on both sides to file"

Now you have a 'preset' of some tabs. Save different presets, which can be used in different situations

A preset for, let's say, all your important coding directories. Or, a preset to your ftp-directories. A preset to network resources. Etc. etc. etc.
Create different buttons in the button-bar, each button specifying a different .tab file to load. Like, clicking the 'Network-tabs'-button will replace the current tabs with the "Network neighbourhood" tab-preset.

However, loading those .tab files is quite 'a lot' work (right click the mouse on a tab, "Load tabs from file, replace tabs", select the desired preset). So: why not make a few buttons?
This way by creating a few well-considered 'tab-buttons', the whole idea of making a long 'folder button-bar' isn't necessary. It saves space, is really flexible, and saves you *a lot* of time by manually navigating to the same dirs every time you need to go to them.

Too bad, there is not such a command as 'cm_TabLoadReplace' or 'cm_TabLoadKeepCurrent'

By this way a feature request:
- 'cm_TabLoadReplace' built-in command
- .tab file to check for is specified in 'parameters' field

[And of course, if loading a .tab file is already possible by using the commandline, please let me know ][/list]

What do you think?

[Clo]

>>>VaagOH
Hello!

However, loading those .tab files is quite 'a lot' work (right click the mouse on a tab, "Load tabs from file,

Causes this:
Image: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/charries/relais/gpf-onglets.png

Regards
Clo

[Hacker]

Too bad, there is not such a command as 'cm_TabLoadReplace' or 'cm_TabLoadKeepCurrent'

Well, we have OPENTABS and APPENDTABS which we can use in the Button Bar or the Start Menu (does it work in Ctrl-D BTW?).

HTH
Roman