I make extensive use of Kate as my main text editor, and I often have many tabs open. Unfortunately, the contents of each tab are quite verbose, consisting of:
[icon filename - partial-path ⊠]
which takes up a lot of horizontal space, limiting number of tabs visible.
Is there any way to make it less-verbose, more like the following?
[filename ⊠]
I don’t know if this is what you are looking for → Settings → Configure Kate → Behaviour
There is a section for behavoral options related to tabs.
I looked at those settings earlier, but the only option for decreasing tab content is “elide” which just foreshortens tab contents to squeeze more tabs in. That makes things worse, because instead of increasing number of filenames that can be seen from 6 to 10, it decreases them from 6 to 0 (because the filenames now look like “bin…nts.pl” so one has to hover over each one to see what it is).
Whereas, what I’m looking for is a way to get rid of everything except the filename. (If it can be done. It’s not a showstopper, but would certainly be convenient.)
hmm -
That is exactly how Kate behaves on my system.
I noted that if you open several files with the same name, an identifier - possibly the first place where paths diverge - is used to tell the files apart.
Not sure this is still a valid gadget (maybe nobody used it, what do I know), but could be worth investigating:
https://kate-editor.org/2011/04/25/kates-tab-bar-plugins/
