Is there a way to disable Temporary Tabs yet?, it is really disrupting my workflow and really annoyed me when I tried deleting an old script as it kept opening it when I clicked on it once. In my opinion temporary tabs should be off by default and only be enabled if the developer wants it.
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Thank you for the feedback @bostaffmanbulgaria1, you can actually re-open a closed Script using Ctrl+Shift+t which is also customizable
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Thank you for the feedback @FxllenCode, we’ll add an option to disable Temporary Tabs in order to avoid disrupting your workflow. There was a bug where selecting the Script in the Explorer doesn’t actually move the focus to the Explorer but that should be fixed soon. Not sure if that helps but thank you for the feedback 
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It’s on our future roadmap, we just can’t promise when…
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Yes! Go to Beta Features, scroll to the bottom and look for “Script Editor Beta Features”
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Really sorry to hear that @JetUpNy, that was a bug which we’re currently fixing such that selecting a Script in the Explorer and deleting it should work. Let us know if you have any other feedback
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Thank you for the bug report @hellhawk, we have a fix for this that should be pushed out shortly!
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You can disable the beta feature by going to File > Beta Features and scrolling to find “Script Editor Beta Features”. Do you have any suggestions on how we can improve your workflow with temporary tabs?
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Hi @DevChris, thank you for the feedback We’ll be looking to make fonts customizable in the Script Editor in the future but in the meantime you may be able to change the Script Editor font to an “Italic” font or download an Italic font on your OS that you can use in the Script Editor
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The new themes are part of the Script Editor Color Presets section in Studio Settings. They are automatically updated!
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In the meantime you can go to Beta Features, scroll to the bottom and look for “Script Editor Beta Features" where you can uncheck the box to disable Temporary Tabs
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Temporary tabs seems to me like a feature that would be better suited in the form of a widget as opposed to something that covers the screen. I see more use docking the temporary tab viewer to my side bar, almost like a minimap, rather than having it steal the focus of my viewport.
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Hi, thanks for getting back to me:
As you can see the line numbers are italicized but the code is not. I have tried to use an italic font as well. Is this a bug?
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In the future would there ever be support for an option to italicize certain keywords? I like Sublime Text since the italicizing makes the code easier to read and just generally looks good in my eyes, and it could work pretty well along with this extra step of customization in the in-built code editor.
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This is amazing, thanks for the feature.
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Oh interesting.
I didn’t know that was possible.
I only knew to do it in google so I can re-open a closed tab.
Thanks for the info, will use it often xd
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I love the new Syntax highlighting. I’ve wanted this forever, Im not a big fan of the Temporary tabs though. It makes it more difficult to delete scripts I want because when I press the delete key while the script it selected it just deletes text inside the script. Im hoping they add an option to disable it soon
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Cool stuff.
Why do we bother to show off light theme? I’d prefer the cool dark theme example only being present instead of showing the worst theme presets imaginable. That being said, the middle one I think is from sublime which is cool. The other two are like Notepad++ era and don’t make me go, “wow, I really want to enable xyz”. Instead, it makes me go, “wow who actually uses light theme in 2020??”.
Even though, these changes are a step up. I really don’t believe that this is the right way to go. There are so many text editors ready available and when you literally reinvent the wheel wasting resources on something that has been created by a larger team (think vsc; Microsoft), it feels like you’re trying to enter into platform-isolation when it doesn’t make much sense to.
That being said, the editor needed improvement but, I feel like more powerful tools for more third-party application would’ve been a better usage of time. I can see where this would fall short for newer developers but, if they take development seriously, they’ll have a hard time transitioning from Roblox to industry-standard technologies which I feel like is more of a loss to them.
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A possible solution for temporary tabs is a Script preview widget that can be activated like the toolbox.
When activated, a panel opens(if not docked already) which allows us to preview a snapshot of the script in the widget (as mentioned above) with one click. When closed, normal functionality. There’s enough space for another button. I tried! I don’t like that I have to turn of the entire beta to get rid of this problem, it doesn’t even feel well thought out as if it was created by someone that doesn’t use roblox studio. Because why would anyone make a 1 click script opener that is 100% counter productive?
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Pressing Ctrl+Backspace (which is something I do a whole lot) throws off the current line highlight and puts it onto the next line. I’ve been able to reproduce this 100% of the time. It’s easier if you see it for yourself:
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