The development continues at https://github.com/mallowigi/EditorGroups

Implementation of https://github.com/SomewhatCloudy/phpstorm-related-proposal

Types of groups

• favorites

• manually defined in *.egroups file (with language support) or in any other file

  • does not support refactoring yet

• by the current file name (without extension) anywhere in the project

• by regex (supporting regex groups, defined in Settings) - #5 #21

• by folder

• bookmarks

Shortcuts

• Ctrl + Alt + Q - Refresh

• Ctrl + Alt + W - Switch Group popup

• Ctrl + Alt + Shift + W - Switch File popup

• Ctrl + Mouse Wheel or Ctrl + ; or ' - switch file (closing the previous one)

• Ctrl + Alt + Mouse Wheel or Ctrl + Alt + ; or ' - switch file (leaving the previous one opened)

• Ctrl + Shift + Mouse Wheel - switch file into a new window

Tab click modifiers

• Ctrl + Left Button - open a file in a new tab

• Shift + Left Button - open a file in a new window

• Alt + Left Button - open a file in a vertical split window

• Alt + Shift + Left Button - open a file in a horizontal split window

• Middle Button - remove from group (only for Favorites)

Advanced actions and settings

• right click on the panel

• File | Settings | Other Settings | Editor Groups

Manually Defined Group Syntax

• @group.id myUniqueId - must be unique across the project, creates a new group if there is more than one (otherwise path+index is used, which breaks references on refactoring)

• @group.root ../../ - root directory, by default the current file’s one; accepts macros, relative and absolute paths

Relative paths to the current file

• @group.related file.txt

• @group.related ../file.txt

Absolute paths

• @group.related C:/file.txt

• @group.related /file.txt

Macros

• @group.related MODULE/src/file.txt

• @group.related PROJECT/myModule/src/file.txt

Wildcards

• @group.related ./*

• @group.related *.txt

• @group.related file.*

• @group.related f??e.txt

• @group.related fileName (with all extensions, unless the file exists)

Exact filename anywhere in the project

• @group.related */foo/file.txt

All files with the same name anywhere in the project

• @group.related */foo/file.*

Tab/Title customization

• @group.title yourTitle

• @group.color yellow (a name from https://www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_names.asp)

• @group.color yellow+3 (or yellow+++ or yellow-3 or yellow--- for darker or brighter shade)

• @group.color #FF0096

• @group.color 0xFF0096

Other

• @group.disable (disables indexing of the current file)

Regex groups

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