How to increase the maximum number of opened editors in IntelliJ?
Settings
| Editor
| General
| Editor Tabs
| Tab limit.
You may also want to increase the recent files limit in Settings
| Editor
| General
| Recent files limit if you are using the Recent Files (Cmd+E) feature.
Works for all IntelliJ IDEA platform based IDEs.
Same as best answer but with snapshots!! (windows 10 with IntelliJ Idea 2018.2.4):