No Tabs in IntelliJ IDEA
I often come across people complaining about some odd behaviour when it comes to editor tabs in IntelliJ IDEA or any of the other sister products such as WebStorm or PhpStorm. Some expect a different kind of behavior from tabs. Others want the ability to have different colored tabs and some want them numbered.
That’s taking up realestate and it’s not providing you with much value other than confusing the hell out of you when you’re looking for that specific index.html file and there are a few of them open. And when you want to navigate to the different tabs, you either have some shortcut key assigned to loop through them or you’re using your mouse!
Navigate to the recent files you’ve just been looking at: Cmd+E If you want to see the recent files you’ve just edited: Shift+Cmd+E And you can use the Switcher to do even faster switches: Ctrl+`
Or you can just press Shift twice and get Search Everywhere. Noticed how Search Everywhere by default lists Recent Files? And remember, most of these dialogs admit patterns such as wildcards, CCC (CamelCaseCompletion), and even going to a specific line number:
