On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:12:28 -0400, "John Gabriele" jmg3000@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/11/07, Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:10:10 -0400, "John Gabriele" jmg3000@gmail.com wrote:
When I've got a bunch of files open, with the tabs visible, and they take up more than the window width, the little left/right triangle buttons show up. They currently are supposed to allow me to switch from one tab to the next in the given direction of the button.
A problem I'm noticing is 3-fold:
- If the user is editing a file in a tab far to one side, and
wants to go to a tab that's obscured on the other side, they need to either repeatedly click that triangle button to get there, or else resort to
Why not just click on the last visible tab and then use the arrow to scroll further?
Yes, I see that works too.
Another possibility is to just right-click on any tab and choose the desired tab from the opening list. This is the way I mostly navigate through tabs which are far away from each other.
Also, since Ctrl-PgUp and Ctrl-PgDn nowadays let you wrap around to the tab on the other end of the row, I think it would be useful to have:
Shift-Ctrl-PgUp -- gets you all the way to the tab on the far left Shift-Ctrl-PgDn -- gets you all the way to the tab on the far right
Did you try Alt-1 and Alt-0?
Didn't know about those! Nice. Incidentally, I can't seem to locate the list of standard GTK+ key bindings. I thought they might be in http://gtk.org/tutorial/ , but I'm not finding them. They're not here http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/input-keyboard.html either. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Alt-[1-0] are defined by Geany and can't be changed. Alt-[1-9] switches to the 9 left tabs according to the typed number and Alt-0 switches to the most right tab. While writing this, an idea comes to my mind: 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. Nick, what do you think?
Regards, Enrico