As I understand the case the 1st level of tabs is created by the OS and the second level from Tinderbox.
I can close a tab from the 1st level using the keyboard shortcut cmd + W.
2nd note:
If there is only one level of tabs on a Tinderbox window, then the shortcut cmd+W closes the whole window and not the active tab.
Question:
Is there a shortcut for closing tabs created by Tinderbox?
If not, I think it would be useful to have one.
I already upgraded last week. I was very skeptic of this upgrade just like you mentioned that many people reported the trouble with PDF files. I spend most of my time working on them (reading) and taking notes. But, thankfully, Adobe Acrobat doesnât seem to use the so called âPDF Kitâ. I use it to process my pdf files. Pdf expert also doesnât seem use the kit.
I prefer not to change the global shortcut for closing tabs but when there are two levels of tabs what is the name of the menu command for closing a tab from the second row? I see only the âClose Tabâ which closes a tab from the first level.
Itâs not a great idea to have keyboard shortcuts for everything. We already have shortcuts for selecting the Next Tab and the Previous Tab; do we really want a shortcut for closing the current tab?
Actually, the extra shortcut is not necessary because the OS gives us the ability to assign a shortcut to any menu item and the user can choose whether to do it or not.
The issue is that there is not an option for closing a Tinderbox tab in any of the menus and now that we have two kinds of tabs I think that would be beneficial.
Finally, I close tabs much more often than I use the Next/Previous Tab options.
I close tabs all the time, and itâs frustrating when my muscle memory hits âW and the whole Tinderbox window disappears. I would love a Close Tab menu option.
Interesting! Just as a data point on the variety of Tinderbox styles, I use the previous/next tab command roughly 1000x as often as I do âclose tab.â Reason, in my case:
I set up windows with multi-tab layouts, to look at data in different ways that I prefer: Map view in one tab, an outline-agent view in another, then a couple of attribute browser views. Back in the old Tinderbox 5 era of multi-window layouts, Iâd have these each in its own window, placed around the screen. Now itâs more practical for me to set them up as tab â and, for me, the point is that I set them up, and then rarely tamper with them.
(As Mark B knows, I keep experimenting with multi-window layouts in TB 7. But for whatever reason I keep encountering a âdisappearing windowâ bug, where the multi-window layout gets boiled down to a single window, with no other damage or corruption to a file. So Iâve shifted for now to single-window/multi-tab layouts.)
I do sometimes delete a tab, but usually as part of the âincremental formalizationâ system of Tinderbox, when I have some new idea in mind for laying out data. I am mentioning this not to say itâs the right way, but just for compare and contrast on different approaches.
On this:
I had a variant of this issue: If I was working in a a multi-window file, hitting Cmd-W (rather than Shift-Cmd-W) would close just one single window â and in closing it would remove it altogether from the fileâs layout. (There was no way to Undo that, and my recourse was to recreate the layout by hand or find an old version of the file and copy out the XML governing windows layout.)
I solved this problem with a step you might want to consider. Using the Apple SystemPreferences/Keyboard settings, I changed Cmd-W from this potentially destructive setting to something harmless. (I now have mapped it to âSave.â) FWIW.
Thanks, hope this is useful for you too. And to spell out a point that may already be obvious to you, but perhaps not to everyone, you donât need to do the Cmd-W remapping for the system as a whole. As you probably know, you can do application-by-application specific remaps.
Returning to this discussion from a while ago: Back at the time, I said that I hardly ever closed tabs. But as Iâve started using the very convenient facility / trick mentioned in this thread, to send notes direct to a Tinderbox Inbox from any other application, Iâve suddenly seen the potential value of having a keystroke means of closing Tinderbox tabs. That is because the Inbox technique, and a related technique mentioned today for direct links to any Tinderbox note (in this blog post), both have as collateral effects the creation of a new tab each time they are used.
Closing those tabs now requires mousing around to the very precise little corner where the tab-close icon is shown. It would be more convenient and TB-esque to allow other keyboard ways to close them. Or, to put it differently, I now see a use case for more frequent tab-closing moves. (Or, a way not to continually create surplus tabs.)
A suggestion to Mark Bernstein: if you decide to just add a menu command for closing a 2nd level Tnderbox tab maybe you could name it âClose noteâ.
Another approach of an app that has two levels of tabs is that of Sublime text. The cmd + W shortcut closes a 2nd level tab except in the case when there is only one 2nd level tab. In the latter case, a 1st level tab is closed as well as it is expected. The command âNew Windowâ always opens a 1st level tab, and the command âNew Fileâ always opens a 2nd level tab.
Since ânoteâ has a specific, term-of-art meaning in Tinderbox, namely as the basic unit of info (as under the Note heading of the menu), I think a âClose noteâ command could be ambiguous at best and misleading at worst. I realize that âclose tabâ might involve confusion with the system-level Sierra tabs, but the understood reference could be to âtabsâ as used elsewhere in the Tinderbox menus (âNew tabâ etc)
Serious (non catty) question: Where is this command? I havenât been aware of a way to close TB tabs other than clicking on their corners. Will be glad to know about this if Iâve overlooked it!
