Re: [gedit-list] Switching of tabs with Ctrl+Tab and "internal recency list"

[chuchi <jbarbero quiter com>]

I think like Adam. I don't know what keys must be pressed (control+tab or control+shift+tab or control+alt+left like eclipse) but it is a good feature that gedit haven't got.

When I am developing with gedit, I go from a source file to other (always two files or three), change a file, change another file, back to the first file etc... We need easy keys to switch beetwen one file and the previous file edited (not the previous file in the tab order).

It is my opinion.

Regards,
    Chuchi



El jue, 15-02-2007 a las 02:44 -0800, renergy escribió:
> Hello there,
>
> Shortly - in my opinion:
>
> Ctrl+Tab should (in Gedit) switch between tabs like Alt+Tab switches between
> windows on (e.g.) Metacity!
>
>
>
> I mean fast switching between last two tabs (~files) one worked with.
>
> About a year ago I've asked about that functionality on some forum.
>
> Somebody replied - use Ctrl+Alt+PageUp/PageDown. But this switches
> (primitively) only to the next/previous tab! It does not have an inner
> memory, inner list of tabs, in which the tabs are in the order reflecting
> how recently they were used.
>
> When one has multiple files opened and switches frequently between two of
> them, it's totally inconvenient that one has to repeatedly press the
> combination of three keys and watch the upper bar to see which file is
> selected throughout the process! Especially when in some other editors it
> suffices to press an easily accessible combination of two keys (Ctrl+Tab)
> only once!
>
> Another suggested possibility was Alt+[number], but again, why i would have
> to
> * find and remember two numbers first (moreover the number corresponding to
> the actual tab is uneasy to find!)
> * find them on the keyboard then
> whenever I want to switch between two tabs?
>
>
> But what I really cannot understand, was the remark on the end of the reply
> a year ago - something like "Windows habits die hard, huh?".
>
> I'd say, that GOOD, CONVENIENT habits "die hard"!
>
>
> The shortcut Ctrl+Tab can be easily pressed with one hand, the keys areke a good candidate for requesting a UVF exception[2] 
> rather large and easily hitted - all in all a very convenient shortcut for a
> very convenient function. It's also analogous to "Alt+Tab", a well
> established shortcut for the switching of active windows.
>
> But the answer said something like "noo, it's reserved for something else".
>
>
> Could, please. someone participating in the development of Gedit consider
> implementning this functionality and shortcut in Gedit?
>
>
> Thanks for your attention.
>
> Adam
>
>
>
>
> PS: I also don't understand, why Firefox lacks the "recency list". Ctrl+Tab
> there switches only to the next tab.

 
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