Re: [gedit-list] Suggestion for gedit - file opening.

[Andrew Bryant <andrew brilyant org>]

Would someone please clarify this.  With Gedit gedit 2.22.3 I find there 
are two actions:

1) A second file opened from the gedit internal browser appears in a new 
tab.
2) A second file opened from Nautilus appears in a new instance of Gedit.

Is this the expected behaviour?

Now that this topic has been raised, I seem to remember that there was a 
time when a second file always appeared in a new tab.

Andrew.



gedit-list-request gnome org wrote:

On za, 2008-09-13 at 16:31 -0400, Shaun Reich wrote:

> > Hello, I'm not sure if this is the method of communication, for
> > suggestions, but here goes:
> > 
> > I believe that gedit should have an option in preferences to try to
> > use the same instance(window) of gedit. When I have a window already
> > open and I click another text document, it should actually open
> > another tab in the current-most window. It should be an option of
> > course, in the preference window.
>   

This is actually already exactly what gedit does, it's a single instance
application which tries to open files in active windows on the current
viewport/workspace if possible. If this is not working in your case,
then either you found a bug somewhere, or maybe you have an old version
of gedit.