I'm trying to invoke the tablist, and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.
I press ">" to go to the command bar, and the I type "go tablist", yet nothing happens. (I have three tabs in the current lister). How is this supposed to work?
In any case, what I'm really looking for is a Find-as-you-type method to select from the open tabs. (Ideally, the find-as-you-type interface for this would run the search against both the tab names as well as the directories of the tabs). Is there any interface available such as this? Does tablist provide this?
Go TABLIST is to be put into toolbars and menus, and will turn into a list of tabs within those toolbars/menus. (The list appears in the same place the command was put, not as a sub-menu. You can create a sub-menu and put it in one if you want, of course.)
Go TABLIST will not pop-up a menu by itself, and won't do anything from the > command bar.
There's no facility for Find As You Type-style searching of open tabs.
Thanks for the tip. I've gotten the Tablist working now.
Can I please suggest a feature request of a Find-As-You-Type tab selection dialog? (Right now, the lack of FATY tab selection is the primary reason that I keep many open windows of OPUS, rather than just using multiple tabs. When I have multiple OPUS windows, with one lister in each, I can use a generic Find-As-You-Type task switching utility to quickly get to the one I want [I use the wonderful ialttab AHK script, but there are many other similar task switchers as well]. However, as you've pointed out in the past, Opus is really designed to be used with multiple tabs. Yet, if once uses multiple tabs, the process of selecting a specific tab is much clunkier, generally requiring the use of a mouse, or quite a few button presses. Thus, I believe a Find-As-You-Type selection dialog would make the tab interface much more efficient.)
I'd be surprised if I said that since I very rarely use tabs myself.
Opus is designed so you can use multiple tabs if you want to but using them isn't essential or an inherent part of the design.
From what I've seen, very few people use so many tabs that they lose track of them and need to be able to search them by typing their names. Once you get to that stage, I'm not sure tabs are the right tool for the job.
My advice: Close the tabs/windows that you are not actively using, and when you want to go back to the folders that were in them, navigate to them via one of the many other mechanisms.
For example, you can assign aliases to folders and then go to them by typing in the alias. (Preferences / Favorites and Recent / Folder Aliases) Auto-completion means you only have to type the start of the alias, too.
(If you do that then you'll stop running into the problems of having hundreds of unused tabs open in the background all processing change events, from your other thread.)