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For tab captions (Configuration | Tabs and Panes | Tabs), I use folder names only.

This works fine... unless you have opened two different folders with the same name, for example,
This would be fine if XY will include the parent folder or maybe even the full path in such cases, so that the tab line will look as follows:
To make the full path in tab captions take less horizontal space, this is also possible to add an option to abbreviate it to the first character,

The abbreviation part can easily be ambiguous
[C:\P\Vim] << [C:\Program Files\Vim]
[C:\P\Vim] << [C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim]

Though the idea of showing some unique parts of the path only for the tabs with identical names makes a lot of sense. VS Code does exactly that, it keeps some difference and turns everything else into ... It would look like this in XY But in order to preserve this ... meaning when there is too many tabs, we would need an infinite tab bar which in and of itself would be a cool feature to have BTW.

Full path is in the tooltip.

John_C wrote: ↑15 Aug 2022 11:10 For tab captions (Configuration | Tabs and Panes | Tabs), I use folder names only.

This works fine... unless you have opened two different folders with the same name, for example,

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C:\Program Files\Vim
and
C:\John\Desktop\TipsAndTricks\Vim

This would be fine if XY will include the parent folder or maybe even the full path in such cases, so that the tab line will look as follows:

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[Photos] [Scripts] [Program Files\Vim] [TipsAndTricks\Vim] [Emacs]

To make the full path in tab captions take less horizontal space, this is also possible to add an option to abbreviate it to the first character,

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so that instead of
[Photos] [Scripts] [C:\Program Files\Vim] [C:\John\Desktop\TipsAndTricks\Vim] [Emacs]

you will have
[Photos] [Scripts] [C:\P\Vim] [C:\J\D\T\Vim] [Emacs]

Actually, you can do it by scripting, I think every building block is available for it. Entering a folder you can check if there is a folder tab with that name already and you can change both as you wish.

admin wrote: ↑20 Aug 2022 10:11 Full path is in the tooltip.

Sure, as in VS Code The idea is not to look in the tooltip

P.S. Actually even if you did look in the tooltips comparing two similar paths, you would do the same work in your head (looking for some difference). So the actual idea is to automate such a routine work that could break the flow of thoughts and to instead keep your brain occupied by more important things.