Eclipse tabs repositionning

Question

I have been using Indigo for a while, and now trying Juno
There is a sligth bothering difference:

On Indigo When you had 10 tabs opened

A | B | C | D | J | H | G ....(F | T | S)

and currently on B
when you selected the file shown in tab T again, then this tab (on Indigo and that's the problem not on Juno) would be repositioned like that:

A | B | T | C | D | J | H ....( G | F | S)

This is useful since, if opening T after B, it means they should be grouped together

on Juno it does not reposition them, instead you will need to find most recent files far in the tab list

Q: how to set it back? I searched params with 'tabs' in the options with no result

edit: still the same in new versions (Kepler)

edit: Thanks to Paul' answer, a good solution is to search for .css files in eclipse folder, and set swt-mru-visible property to true in e4-default-win7.css for example

Handsomely

I know this is an old question. But on every new version of eclipse, I keep on coming back here to get the answer. It still amazes me that the bug related to it is still unchanged since 2012. bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=396008 – Contingence

Answer 1

Juno by default doesn't present the MRU (Most Recently Used) tab behaviour that you see in Indigo (it never worked quite right) and instead uses the Editor document order.

I believe you can re-activate it be either switching to the Classic theme in Preferences>General>Appearance or by editing the CSS. See http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse4/CSS

.MPartStack {
    swt-mru-visible: true;
}

Don't forget to restart Eclipse to make it use the new parameters.

Baritone

This has to be by far the most annoying behaviour in Juno. If MRU wasn't working properly they should have fixed it and failing that left it the way it was until they could. It's extremely aggravating to flip between two editors in Juno with the default behaviour. – Current

This answer got me really excited, but changing this value in JUNO_SR2_HOME/plugins/org.eclipse.platform_4.2.2.v201302041200/css/e4_basestyle.css had no effect on tab ordering behaviour for me. Is something other than a restart required to activate the MRU setting? – Shostakovich

Aha, it is explicitly set to false again in e4_default_mac.css. Changing it there and then restarting Eclipse did the trick. – Shostakovich

As for the linked Eclipse4/CSS plugin site... the instructions on that page currently say to install from download.eclipse.org/e4/updates/0.15-I-builds but that URL is no longer valid. I found the plugin at: download.eclipse.org/e4/updates/0.16-I-builds – Burger

I wish I knew who made this change in Eclipse so I could actively hate a specific person instead of hating the software in general. – Intussuscept

In Mars, June 2015, there will be a preference so that you don't have to edit CSS. – Baritone

Answer 2

Apparently this option was added in Eclipse Mars 4.5:

Window -> Preferences -> General -> Appearance ->

Visible tabs on overflow:

[X] Show most recently used tabs

Hufuf