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

["Gary Haran" <gary haran gmail com>]

Why not use ALT+~ to move forward between tabs and SHIFT+ALT+~ to move back?

It would be similar to window switching hence easier to remember.

On 2/15/07, chuchi <jbarbero quiter com> wrote:
>  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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