On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:30:55 +0100, Nick Treleaven nick.treleaven@btinternet.com wrote:
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:09:33 -0400 "Mark Turner" mturner4@csee.usf.edu wrote:
This has gotten a bit more complex than I had originally intended. I
I wanted to raise what I saw as a related issue, sorry if it seemed the thread got hijacked. We did say the MRU switching could be implemented.
And it'd be cool if it was implemented :). I agree with Nick, once we have MRU-like Ctrl-Tab behaviour which we all want to have as it seems, then we can talk about modifying/adjusting the code naviagation. But the first step is the MRU-llike Ctrl-Tab which is firstly independent from any code navigation changes.
just meant to have the ctrl-tab as an alternative to the code navigation, not necessarily used with it. I personally haven't used the code navigation, and for all I know, it could work for what I'd like. The only thing I'd want ctrl-tab to do is keep track of the order I've been accessing various documents and allow me to switch between them in an MRU order, similar to how you switch between applications with alt-tab in the OS.
OK, I had assumed 2 commands, back and forward in a history of documents. But I guess a window manager style Alt-Tab would only need one command. A single command would not really replace any part of Code Navigation.
I think a one-command solution would be better. Do you want to also use a small window to show cycling between tabs like window managers do? That would be a cute and handy feature but also might get unusable with many open tabs (I usually have between 25 and 35 files open). Just as a note.
Regards, Enrico