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Regarding tabs, macOS has native tab support more or less built-in to the windowing system—you can see this in action if you create a document-based app in Xcode—but your app has to be structured in such as a way as to opt into it. Have you considered opting into this or would you consider it contrary to the project goals?

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The hardest part about supporting things like this on macOS is that they often require a lot of additional code or a certain design whereas on Linux, a lot of these features are provided by the window manager.

I don't consider it contrary to the project's goals if it's something that can be done unobtrusively. Given your description, it sounds like this may be something we could support easily. I filed #1544 to track this. Thanks for the suggestion!

#1544: https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/1544

This is actually enabled by default unless you disable it. No extra code needed, unless the macOS implementation conflicts with yours.

Thanks for this clarification. I don't see any reason we couldn't support this given that info.

We haven't intentionally opted out of this that I know of, we just didn't start Alacritty from an XCode project on macOS.

I've noticed you don't have anything in the menu bar. The option normally appears under Window > Merge All Windows, which is inserted by default by the Xcode template.

Thanks for this additional feedback. It sounds like we should create an XCode project from scratch to get many of the defaults and figure out how to bridge this with our current implementation.

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