On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:44:51 -0400, "John Gabriele" jmg3000@gmail.com wrote:
- "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.
I don't think so because if you expect Alt-1 for the first opened doc and Alt-0 for the last opened one then it makes more sense to invert the behaviour according to the tabs placement setting. Anyway, the last months nobody comlained and I can also live with the current behaviour so we don't have to change it (and when I'm starting to feel really uncomfortable with the behaviour I know how to change it for me ;-)).
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).
Well, at least me uses it and the feature was requested by someone via the feature request tracker at sf.net so chances are high enough there is someone else besides me ;-).
Regards, Enrico