How to alphabetically sort tabs at the bottom of a lister window

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Hi everybody,

In a lister is it possible to get tabs displayed in alphabetical order at the bottom of the lister windows?

Many thanks in advance for any help.

Cheers.

Patrick

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I think you could reorder them with a script.

Do you want it to happen automatically (even when changing folders? the tabs will jump around), it just when you click a button/key?

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Hi Leo,

Thanks for your prompt response as usual (by the way I still owe you an answer about another question re. how to display mkv movies runtime in listers).

About the current question I would rather like alphabetical sorting occurs whenever I open the lister. But hitting a button might be useful too.

How do you feel about it?

Many thanks in advance for your answer.

Cheers.

Patrick

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I started looking at this properly today, but then hit a snag.

Do you want the tabs sorted by full path, or the folder name (last component of the path), or the literal labels on the tabs?

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Hi Leo,

Many thanks for your help. Sorry to give you extra work.

Actually I would like to get the tabs sorted by the literal labels on the tabs (which most of time happen to match the folder name without the path info).

Cheers.

Patrick

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This turned out more complicated than expected, and we had to make some code-changes in Opus to make it work well.

As a result, the solution below requires Opus 12.6.2, so it won't work until we release that. But here it is:

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