One of the top features in IntelliJ IDEA 14.1 is distraction free mode. I am totally in love with it and not looking back, working 100% of time in it. Biggest concern about it is: loosing tabs. I was happy with tabs before, but it looks like there is a bunch of better options:
I chose Search Everywhere as it is most feature rich and is really awesome. I also remapped it to Ctrl + E as it includes Recent Files, but as shortcut Ctrl + E works faster and is easier to reach.
Tabs had another aspect - tabs pinning, I didn't used it a lot, but for occasional use, bookmarks replace them nicely and provide more features as can pin specific line together with file. So use F3 to bookmark and Cmd + F3 to list bookmarks.
Everything else: like splitting, navigation bar, file path, tool windows, etc. is easy accessible via shortcuts or Find Action... (Shift + Cmd + A) if you forgot shortcut.
- Recent Files (Cmd + E) - basically dropdown with tabs, but you can also do text search in it.
- Switcher (Ctrl + Tab) - same as Recent Files, but opens file once shortcut is released. A little faster, but you are loosing search. This is the closest to original tabs.
- Search Everywhere (Shift + Shift) - acts as Recent Files, but if you type something - also does search for Classes, Files, Symbols, Actions, Preferences. So together with tabs it basically replaces also Cmd + E, Cmd + O, Shift + Cmd + O, Alt + Cmd + O, Shift + Cmd + A.
I chose Search Everywhere as it is most feature rich and is really awesome. I also remapped it to Ctrl + E as it includes Recent Files, but as shortcut Ctrl + E works faster and is easier to reach.
Tabs had another aspect - tabs pinning, I didn't used it a lot, but for occasional use, bookmarks replace them nicely and provide more features as can pin specific line together with file. So use F3 to bookmark and Cmd + F3 to list bookmarks.
Everything else: like splitting, navigation bar, file path, tool windows, etc. is easy accessible via shortcuts or Find Action... (Shift + Cmd + A) if you forgot shortcut.
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