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I would find it much easier if the tabs show which files are in the Editor were stacked vertically rather than horizontally. Stacked horizontally means that you run out of room to display file names very fast and makes switching between files time consuming.

Is there an option or a plugin to display the files vertically? (Similar to navigator, but for open files instead of project files) I can't seem to find one.

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tabs can not be stacked vertically. However, CTRL+E (⌘+E on mac) might give you some relief.

emallove
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Ankur
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    After pressing CTRL+E you can also start typing the name of the file you're looking for in the pop-up list that appears – Brad Jul 15 '14 at 13:33
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    and you can also use wildcards like * or ? when searching in the pop-up list – betatester07 Sep 29 '15 at 14:39
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Eclipse 3.8

CTRL+G brings up an Editors dialog as shown in this screen capture:

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Eclipse 4.3

CTRL+E brings up the pop-up shown in this screen capture:

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emallove
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With ctrl+shift+e you can open an extra window that show you the open tabs vertically.

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    A pity that window closes as soon we double click on the file. I wonder if someone could make it (with a plugin?) single click and stay opened, I would just make it very thin and put by the side of the editor window. – Aquarius Power Nov 08 '15 at 15:43
  • the window opened window is very handy. It shows all the open editors, several can be marked and at the bottom there's a button "close selected editors" to close all those in one fell swoop. – Adam.at.Epsilon Mar 10 '21 at 08:01
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EditorViewer is very good The project is dead, but it works fine with Eclipse 3.7. Just drop the .jar file in the dropins folder

http://sourceforge.net/projects/editorviewer/?source=dlp

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Another command is CTRL+F6 not entirely like the other ones but great to switch between your two most recent tabs. And you also get a list of open tabs like the other examples.

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For newer versions of Eclipse, there is a plugin Open Editors which adds a view listing all open editors.

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you can always drag windows over each other to tile them vertically but if you see a ">>" at the end of the tabs clicking on it gives a file list which are open.

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None that I know of, but there are some other tipps to make life a little easier:

1) Use Mylyn, which filters the Explorer-Views so only relevant files are shown there.

2) Have a look at "Extended VS Presentation" http://andrei.gmxhome.de/skins/index.html . This little plugin adds some useful features to reduce waste of screenspace. With it you can hide the file extension in editor tabs or limit the size of each tab and reduce the padding. Then you can remove the X and close tabs with a middle click. Each just a small saving, but they add up.

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Finally a true relief!
https://sourceforge.net/projects/editorviewer/?source=dlp

Install dragging the "install" button from
https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/vertical-tab-list

to show it
"window / show view / browsing / editors list"

On its internal menu I selected too: Sort by ext+name

Now I just need a way to hide the top tabs list and it will become perfect!

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