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SlickEdit Product Discussion => SlickEdit® => Topic started by: jorick on November 03, 2025, 08:36:41 PM

Title: File reusing the same window even if One File Per Window selected
Post by: jorick on November 03, 2025, 08:36:41 PM

In Options->Editing->Editor Windows, Files per window is set to One file per window.  If I'm displaying a file in a window and then open a file from a different directory with the same name, it won't open a new buffer but reuse the same buffer.  If the file being displayed has a different name, then it will open the new file in a different buffer.

Example: I have two files, C:\test\Argh.py and C:\run\Argh.py.  I've opened C:\test\Argh.py that is currently being displaying it in a tab.  I then open C:\run\Argh.py and that file replaces C:\test\Argh.py in the buffer.  It appears that C:\test\Argh.py gets closed since the tab dropdown doesn't show the file in the list.  Now I open both C:\test\Argh.py and Sheesh.py, and am viewing Sheesh.py in the tab.  If I open C:\run\Argh.py, it doesn't replace C:\test\Argh.py but opens it in its own tab.

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SlickEdit Pro 2024 (v29.0.4.0 64-bit Qt5)

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Title: Re: File reusing the same window even if One File Per Window selected
Post by: Clark on November 03, 2025, 09:31:32 PM

Try turning off "Automatically close visited files"

Tools>Options>Editing>Bookmarks>Automatically close visited files

Title: Re: File reusing the same window even if One File Per Window selected
Post by: jorick on November 03, 2025, 09:39:34 PM

That worked!  Thanks!

It seems to be a strange place to put that setting.  I was looking under Editing->Editor Windows.  I would think putting it under Files per window would be a better place since that setting doesn't have much to do with bookmarks.

Title: Re: File reusing the same window even if One File Per Window selected
Post by: Clark on November 04, 2025, 02:13:23 AM

Agreed. I had to do a search for "visit" to find it ("close" had a few too many matches). Bookmarks are used for a lot of features but it's not where I naturally looked for this. Under the Files per window setting makes more sense.