When I click on a file in the tree, Sublime 3 opens it in a “temporary” tab with an italicized title, and if I click on another file, replaces the tab. The only way to turn the title into ordinary text and keep the pane open is to fiddle with the tab or the file sufficiently that Sublime decides that I really want it open.

I want to disable this behavior and keep tabs open until I close them. How can I do this?

Checking the default preferences is always a good place to start looking:

[quote] // Preview file contents when clicking on a file in the side bar. Double
// clicking or editing the preview will open the file and assign it a tab.
“preview_on_click”: true,

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Thanks. I’d read through the file, but I didn’t make the connection of what “preview” meant (since it’s already in a tab).