Rename hooks: make results preview tab ephemeral

[MaddyGuthridge]

Relevance Confirmation

• I confirmed that this is not an issue with the Eclipse JDT Language Server itself

What happened?

When doing a large number of Java file move operations, I get an enormous number of rename result tabs opened. I find that these clog up my workspace in a way that can get quite distracting during big refactors.

This is a minor usability issue, but a fix would be nice if doing so is low-hanging fruit.

What did you expect to happen?

The refactor result tabs open ephemerally, so that they are replaced when another refactor operation is performed (or another file is opened).

Environment

Zed: Zed 1.4.4
Platform: NixOS 26.05
Java: 21.0.2

[tartarughina]

I might be mistaken but this is not an issue with the extension per se but in how Zed handles rename operations.

Anyhow, what are the steps to reproduce?

[MaddyGuthridge]

I ended up in the scenario screenshotted above while moving a bunch of Java files around. I had to move about 10 files from one folder into various other places. Perhaps this is a relatively rare scenario, since the codebase I was working on was intentionally disorganised (it is a refactoring assignment). Even still, I think these tabs should be ephemeral if possible (often I look at them once to sanity check then move on with my life (in this case, moving another file).