[eluser]jedd[/eluser]
Ah yes, one of those annoying times when you have to change your coding practices to suit the limitations of your IDE.
Shame you can't convince IDE's to show parent directory / filename in each tab.
Perhaps NetBeans will introduce that in version 19 -- of course even then they still won't have an option to show tab-stops, despite shipping on two DVD's.
My workaround for the problem is to open my controller, then my model, then my view(s) - so the order is consistent, and anything from tab 3 across is a view. Of course, I occasionally have to open other files, but they all stand out like the proverbial (MY_Controller, MY_model, pdb_helper, etc).