On Apr 13, 2010, at 3:11 PM, Paul Sanders wrote: I have found this entire thread very disappointing. Here we have someone who suggests what to me and I suspect many others is an eminently sensible addition to Xcode and, when pressed, argues his case with intelligence, wit, passion and no little style. But the responses he gets are largely ill-informed, unhelpful and negative. Surely we can do better than this. But it seems there is more sport in shooting someone down who dares to be different than entering into any kind of useful dialog on an issue like this. And not everything Windows does is bad. Given what has gone on here, I can sympathise with Fritz. Maybe we should just all stick to the basics.
For the record, the desire to have tabbed editing in Xcode is longstanding, well-understood, and not a good fit for the current Xcode architecture, but we are well aware of the desire for tabs and their usefulness for developers and hope to address it in a forthcoming release.
The functional thing to do is file an enhancement request, which gets linked to previous requests for similar functionality, and we do indeed pay attention to the number and persistence of requests. We don't pay much attention to debates among developers about personal coding style, because such debates rarely persuade others from their strongly-held opinions ;-)
Chris |