Pop out tabs to create new editor window

[chamons]

In many "tab" based products, you can grab a tab and "pop it out" to create a new window with that content. That would be awesome for atom when you want to windows side by side.

[tannerlinsley]

+1 This is needed asap. Just came over from Sublime Text, and there's only a couple of little but important things to make the experience non-regrettable and even fantastic. This is one of them ;)

[mergederg]

+1. Was very weirded out when dragging a tab out of a window saved a copy of the active file to the desktop instead of spawning a window for the tab.

[benogle]

like, how hard would that be to implement

Thanks for the comment. PRs would be accepted for such a feature.

[davidgross]

I have been fiddling with this for the last couple days, (I really want this feature), I am not a node/coffee/javascript programmer(I am a Rails dev, I have some limited javascript experience....). I have a couple questions for someone who knows something about how the events work for tabs, I figured out how to make it make a new window when you drag a tab out of the window(using onDragLeave).

The trouble is, it creates it when you drag it within the window as well, and if you drag it over several tabs(eg: re-ording tabs) it will open a bunch of new windows up.

It seems like I need a way to determine if you dropped it outside the window, but there does not seem to be an event for that(or I don't know what it is called)

onDragEnd seemed promising, but it doesn't allow you to drop the tab in a new window, as it creates the new window after you drop the tab....

I am using the "application:new-window" command to get this, which means you also end up with a "untitled" blank-tab, and that seems wrong...

Thoughts?

PS: my tweaks are in https://github.com/davidgross/tabs if anybody cares....(also, my stuff really just breaks tabs at the moment....)

[davidgross]

Update on my tweaks: I have a functioning "Open Tab in new Window" option in the tab right click menu.

This will, as the name suggests, open the tab in a new window, however it won't copy your un-saved changes, but it does prompt you to save before opening the file in a new window.

[danhardman]

+1

@davidgross Are you still working on this?

[davidgross]

@danhardman I am still working on this, but, I have not had time to work on it in the last couple days...

[davidgross]

@benogle do you want a pull request from my work? It simply creates a right-click button to open a tab in a new window, doesn't solve this thread, but, maybe creates a use-able work-around.

[mnquintana]

@davidgross A PR for that would be great! It would certainly be a good stopgap until this gets implemented.

[davidgross]

@mnquintana pull request here: #134

[vickytoria082]

Please implement this so I can stop using sublime +1 👍

[cganterh]

All those "+1" are very annoying, but sincerely: +1!
The right click PR is enough for me ;).

[mnquintana]

Thanks for the feedback everyone! Part of this is being implemented in #134. To keep this issue from getting too noisy I'm going to lock it for now.