Reuse table window for previously-opened window. Don't replace diff table

In General > Key Bindings > Double-Click, I have Double Click: Open in Tab. When I double click on table A, it opens a table A tab. If I double click on table A again, nothing happens. If I double click on table B, it reuses and replaces the table A tab with table B content. [ close all window tabs] If I set General > Key Bindings > Double-Click, to Double Click: Open in New Tab, and if I double click on table A, it opens a table A tab. If I double click on table A again, another table A tab is opened. I think there may be productivity issues here. It would be probably better if: - if an existing table tab is already open, re-focus it (instead of opening a new tab) - if no existing table tab exists, open a new tab

The problem is it reuses the same tab to open another table. Say I double-click Table A. There's 1 new tab now, labeled Table A. If I double-click Table B, Table A tab is replaced by Table B tab. So, there's only 1 tab open. I would have expected 2: one for Table A and another for Table B. Is there a setting I'm missing here? Edited by: Geff Chang on Aug 12, 2013 10:50 AM

In addition to my previous comment above, using "Open in New Tab" is not ideal. If I double-click Table A 3 times, I would get 3 Table A tabs. The way "Open in New Tab" works is probably correct. Regardless if the table is open or not, it should create a new tab. But for Open in Tab, I would expect it to reuse the same table tab of the same name. If there is no tab of that name, it should create a new tab. This way, there are no duplicate tabs. This would minimize the clutter in the tab list. Perhaps it's a feature request? Edited by: Geff Chang on Aug 12, 2013 10:57 AM

I just observed something interesting. I have have two tabs open (Table A and Table B). If I double-click Table A, it opens/re-focuses the Table A tab. If I double-click Table B, it opens/re-focuses the Table B tab. In this case, no new tabs are created. This is the sort of behavior I was expecting. But if I double-click Table C, it would replace the currently-open tab. This is the behavior that I'm not expecting. It should create a new table tab for Table C. Maybe this is a bug instead? Edited by: Geff Chang on Aug 12, 2013 11:04 AM

Just to say that I was going to raise this same point. I too changed my double-click to 'open in new tab' to avoid accidently losing already open tabs - but then often end up with piles of unintended duplicates. TBH I hadn't realised you could pin the tabs to stop them being repurposed - and I'll try to get into the habit of doing this now. But I still think it would be nice to have an 'inbetween' double-click option where either it automatically re-uses a tab if it one already exists otherwise creates a new one. Or alternatively, prompts you to say that one or more tabs are already open for this, do you want to select an existing tab or create a new tab. (There's a minor question as to what to do if there are multiple candidate tabs for selection; but that's an existing issue for the 'open in tab', and from what I can see it just picks the first matching one (rather than, say, the last one in focus)). Martin.