Re: switching between documents, was Re: [gedit-list] RFE: remove the tab when viewing a single file

[John Pye <john pye student unsw edu au>]

Steve Fr�naux wrote:
> John Pye wrote:
>> Does this mean that you believe these keys to work for cycling documents
>> in gedit 2.14.1? They don't work for me (new FC5 install).
>
> No, there is an underlying glitch with it in gedit: this shortcut is
> used to navigate through paragraphs, so the right accelerator is
> shift+ctrl+pgup/pgdn. IMHO we should swap these shortcuts but my
> opinion could be biased since I never use that capability of
> navigating through paragraps.
I for one am in favour of a simple shortcut for cycling through
documents. Please make it ctrl-pgup and ctrl-pgdn. FWIW paragraph
navigation is done in TextPad with Alt-Up, Alt-Down (for end of local
paragraph) and Alt-Shift-Up, Alt-Shift-Down (for start of next paragraph).

So would ctrl-pgup work in last-in-first-out style, or would it work in
the order of the list of documents as in the tabs? I'm in favour of the
last-in-first-out behaviour, like Alt-Tab, because that is useful even
when you're switching between document 1 and document 8: just one key
combo, not repeated presses.
>
>> Surely an issue if you can't reassign ctrl-tab...?
>
> I'm not a GTK expert but it seems the tab key is handled separately
> because of this widget switching stuff. Maybe asking on #gtk on
> irc.gnome.org would give you better answers.
Cheers
JP

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