Re: powershell/gnome-terminal

[Loban Amaan Rahman <loban enigma caltech edu>]

> Ok. not only ad alt-f1/f2/f3/etc, but add the alt-left/right arrows. It
> would be better then alt-tab since you can go backwards as well as
> forwards.

The "backwards" of alt-tab is usually alt-shift-tab - although, I admit, it
is cumbersome.


> On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Warren Young wrote:
> 
> > bob@thestuff.net wrote:
> > > 
> > > Simpleist ways are allways the best. what about the console style
> > > ctrl-f1/f2/f3...
> > 
> > That'd be livable, but I still prefer the ability to redo the tab order
> > at will.
> > 
> > The main reason Alt-F1/F2/F3/etc. works -- at least for me -- is that I
> > always use a particular workspace/console for specific things.  The
> > third one is always where my superuser shell is, for example.  The
> > problem with mapping that onto an enhanced gnome-terminal is that it'd
> > be hard to map particular values onto tasks: if you just wanted a root
> > shell on tab 3, you'd have to open two other terminal tabs just as
> > placeholders.
> > 
> > The Alt-Tab way avoids this by making recent tasks easiest to return
> > to.  That way you don't lay down patterns mapping particular terminal
> > tab numbers to tasks, you just keep recent tasks in your memory.

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