Panes, tabs and layout
Each workspace, a branch or a Topic, keeps its own layout: up to four panes, split at most two levels deep. A pane holds no name of its own; tabs land in one by a pin rule, or by you dragging them there.
Splitting
Section titled “Splitting”Split the pane to the right and Split the pane below are in the command palette, and on a tab’s own context menu; neither has a default key, since splitting is a decision made once and then lived with rather than something you reach for constantly. You can also drop a tab on the edge of a pane to split it that way.
Closing a pane merges its tabs into a neighbor (the one to the right first); the last pane cannot be closed. A pane that never held a tab, or is emptied out, closes itself automatically.
Where a new tab opens
Section titled “Where a new tab opens”Settings > Panes has one setting per tab family: Terminals open in, Chats open in, Files open in, each set to leftmost or rightmost. Terminals and chats default to the leftmost pane, files to the rightmost. This only decides where a new tab lands; tabs already open stay put.
The tab strip
Section titled “The tab strip”The strip never scrolls. Once tabs stop fitting, the rest fold into a +N
dropdown rather than becoming scrollable. Right clicking a tab offers moving
it to another pane, pinning a pane to only accept one kind of tab, splitting,
closing others, closing to the right, and file specific actions like
revealing it in Finder or opening its local or file history.
Ctrl+Tab cycles the focused pane’s tabs, Cmd+1 through Cmd+9 jump to a
specific tab in it.
The dock
Section titled “The dock”A second strip at the bottom of the window, separate from the pane tree, for
one-off command tabs: clones, bootstraps, installs, sign-ins. Cmd+Ctrl+J
shows or hides it.
Closing and reopening
Section titled “Closing and reopening”Closing Tori with unsaved editor buffers does not prompt you to save or discard; it stashes them, undo history included, and restores them on next launch. Turn this off with Keep unsaved edits across a quit, in Settings
Editor.
Dragging things around
Section titled “Dragging things around”Drag a project, branch or space row from the sidebar onto a terminal to insert its path as a mention. Drag a file in from outside Tori (from Finder) onto a pane’s tab strip to open it.