On 7/16/07, Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de wrote:
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:39:17 -0400, "John Gabriele" jmg3000@gmail.com wrote:
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Enrico, I'm sorry, but I'm not understanding you. Could you please explain what you meant by "perhaps this could be inverted (tabs 1-9 from left to right, and most right tab to most left tab) according to the 'Placement of new file tabs' option."?
I guessed it could be hard to understand for others because it was hard to me to express it ;-). I try again: Currently, pressing Alt-1 switches to the most left document. Alt-1
Alt-2
to the document right of the most left one and so on. Alt-0 switches to the most right document.
Right. This current setup makes sense to me, though I don't think I'd ever use any of those keys except Alt-1 and Alt-0. The others I'd just get to with Ctrl-Pg{Up,Dn}, or else with the mouse.
You know about "Placement of new file tabs" option? It defines whether new file tabs are placed on the left or right edge of the notebook.
Ah. Yes. I'd only ever left that set to place new tabs on the right.
The idea was to change the behaviour of the Alt-number shortcuts according to the setting of "Placement of new file tabs".
That is, when using
- "Placement of new file tabs" -> Right Alt-1 switches to the most left(first opened) document Alt-2 switches to the right of the most left(second opened) document ... Alt-0 switches to the most right(last opened) document
Yes. Just as it does currently.
- "Placement of new file tabs" -> Left Alt-1 switches to the most right(first opened) document Alt-2 switches to the left of the most right(second opened) document ... Alt-0 switches to the most left(last opened) document
Eeek. Ok, I get it now. I thought using the '1' and '0' keys was easy to remember because '1' is all the way on the left (Alt-1 sends you to left-most tab) and '0' is all the way on the right (Alt-0 sends you to right-most tab). Having them work backwards just because new tabs get opened on the left (instead of the right) seems very odd to me. I think it would be a mistake to make that behaviour the default.
Incidentally, since I'm already using Ctrl keys (Ctrl-Pg{Up,Dn} and Ctrl-Tab) to move between tabs, it feels a bit weird to also use the Alt key (Alt-1, Alt-0, etc.) to move between tabs. My bet is that Shift-Ctrl-Pg{Up,Dn} would be more natural for going to {left-,right-}most tabs, respectively. My guess is that users rarely, if at all, use the Alt-number keys besides Alt-1 and Alt-0 (though I'm sure you'd be curious to hear if anyone is).
---John