README.md
In moodymudskipper/tabs: Juggle With Rstudio Tabs

tabs

EXPERIMENTAL

Very rough sketch, many things are likely to change or break.

{tabs} extends {rstudioapi} to be able to conveniently close or move tabs, show diffs between unsaved and saved, restore tabs from cache etc.

Install with:

remotes::install_github("moodymudskipper/tabs")

tabs_ functions mostly take a tidy selection as their main arg, which is applied on tab names. e.g. tabs_keep(starts_with("a"))

The most important functions:

tabs_keep() keeps matched tabs open
tabs_close() closes matched tabs
tabs_select() keeps matched tabs and attempts to reorder them (There are some limitation for viewed items than cannot be recreated)
tabs_gather() moves matched tabs to the right side of the current tab
tabs_open() opens new tabs by matching file names
tabs_resurrect() brings back scripts that were closed without being saved but still live in the cache (this one doesn’t use tidy selection)

By default when closing a tab might cause losing unsaved changeds a diff is shown and a choice is proposed.

The usual tidy selection helpers can be used to select by tab name or file name, ignoring the extension.

Other helpers are available :

is_r(), is_rmd() restricts selection to R files or Rmd files
ext_is() restricts to file that matches the provided extension without “.”
code_matches() restricts selection to files whose code matches the provided pattern
code_uses() restricts selection to R scripts whose code uses the provided variable
stored_in() restricts selection to files located in a given directory, optionally recursive