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Improve Open Recent on OS X
Open Recent doesn't work as expected and doesn't integrate well with the system.
Somethings don't work as expected, others are broken and it doesn't look the same. Here is a screenshot from TextMate:
Some of the issues I find, besides the looks, are:
- Every file appears in the list. Even files opened thru the sidebar or go to file palete. This is not desirable. Only opened folders and files which don't belong to any of the folders in the sidebar should be in that list.
- The list isn't accessible by other applications. People using Quicksilver or Launchbar can't open directly recent files/folders
Without knowing anything from Sublime Text 2 implementation, I risk to say, using the default OS X API's to provide this functionality would probably fix these issues.
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1. Too many files in the open recent list
Fix: Files opened using the Sidebar or "Goto Anything" should not be displayed in the list
2. Integration with OS X
Fix: Write the list also to ~/Library/Preferences/com.sublimetext.2.LSSharedFileList.plist when on OS X
3. Readability
Fix: implement @Sindre Sorhus suggestion
1. Too many files in open recent list
2. Integration with OSX
- makes sense: +1
3. Readability- Showing only filenames is useless.. once you have multiple identicaly named files you loose: -1 on that idea. The proposed "show path on key-combo" becomes a nuisance if you generally work on lots of identicaly named files.. so no real help but rather a needless slowdown.. my proposal to suit all needs: a user pref which switches between "allways show path" and "only show path on key-combo"
- path readability: the current left to right state is rather hard to read, even if you'd bolden the filename and grey-downed the path.. since most of us are left-to right oriented readers, the main info (filename) should be aligned to the left, and additional info (path) following right to it.. but that's an easy fix: either just reverse the path, or place the filename first and let the path follow seperately (and bolden/gray-down as icing on the cake if you wish..)
- Showing Icons: makes sense.. that way you can visually preselect before you need to actually read any filename.. +1
cheers,Jan
I agree with all suggestions, especially the OSX integration for the preferences-file. This file is important to be able to open recent files via the app's context menu in the Dock.
>2. Integration with OS X
>Fix: Write the list also to ~/Library/Preferences/com.sublimetext.2.LSSharedFileList.plist when on OS X
This is the one feature keeping me on TextMate... I open all my recent files and projects by doing a three finger swipe down and clicking from the recent list.
Too bad it's been broken for so long. I guess the authors don't see the value in this very Mac-like workflow.
It would be good to see an acknowledgement that this topic has been considered. I am surprised that better integration with quicksilver and generally OSx hasn't been requested more. Sublime has always seemed to me to be a swiss army knife tool that can do it all, it would make sense that when there are other apps with that really speed up workflow, integration with them should be encouraged. After 11 months this thread doesn't appear to welcomed, it deserves better attention, and at least a standard acknowledgement that it is being considered.
This is an absolute deal breaker. I'm not going to click through dialogs to re-open a file that I was just looking at, especially when the OS already provides this functionality universally. What's more alarming, from the perspective of whether to invest in a closed-source text editor like this, is how such a crippling -and yet trivially solvable- issue as this has been ignored for so long.
I would also like to suggest that the "Open Recent" menu is also placed in the dock icon menu. I use "Open Recent" a lot, and find it anoying that I can't use it like in Excel: