I'd like to be able to quickly move back and forth between two files.
I tried using bookmarks, but they only work for within one file.
Is there a feature or plug-in that's like bookmarks, but for files instead of locations within one file?
Thanks, -- John
Tabs not working for you?
/gostal
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I'd like to be able to quickly move back and forth between two files.
I tried using bookmarks, but they only work for within one file.
Is there a feature or plug-in that's like bookmarks, but for files instead of locations within one file?
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On Tuesday, June 09, 2020 06:05:33 AM Gösta Ljungdahl wrote:
Tabs not working for you?
I'm not the OP, but I can see the value in something better than tabs -- something that switches between files but also takes you to a specific location in a different file. (And what comes to mind is, as the OP mentioned, bookmarks that can hop between files.)
(I work with several large files, and simply switching between them isn't much help, I have to switch between them and then navigate to the desired location.)
I've got a lot of files open (at least 2 dozen), and the tabs aren't always near each other. I could drag the tabs around, but that gets messy (and I have to keep clicking the arrows to side-scroll the tabs around to find what I want).
-- John
On Tue, Jun 9, 2020, at 6:05 AM, Gösta Ljungdahl wrote:
Tabs not working for you?
/gostal
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I'd like to be able to quickly move back and forth between two files.
I tried using bookmarks, but they only work for within one file.
Is there a feature or plug-in that's like bookmarks, but for files instead of locations within one file?
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The closest thing I can think of is the Documents tab in the left pane (sidebar). Clicking will take you to the file but it won’t change the order of the tabs I the file pane. /gostal
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I've got a lot of files open (at least 2 dozen), and the tabs aren't always near each other. I could drag the tabs around, but that gets messy (and I have to keep clicking the arrows to side-scroll the tabs around to find what I want).
-- John
On Tue, Jun 9, 2020, at 6:05 AM, Gösta Ljungdahl wrote: Tabs not working for you? /gostal ________________________________
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I'd like to be able to quickly move back and forth between two files.
I tried using bookmarks, but they only work for within one file.
Is there a feature or plug-in that's like bookmarks, but for files instead of locations within one file?
Thanks, -- John _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.geany.orgmailto:Users@lists.geany.org https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.geany.orgmailto:Users@lists.geany.org https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
Yes, the Documents tab is excellent, and if I'm not using split window I'm using the Documents tab.
-- John
On Tue, Jun 9, 2020, at 3:08 PM, Gösta Ljungdahl wrote:
The closest thing I can think of is the Documents tab in the left pane (sidebar). Clicking will take you to the file but it won’t change the order of the tabs I the file pane.
/gostal
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I've got a lot of files open (at least 2 dozen), and the tabs aren't always near each other. I could drag the tabs around, but that gets messy (and I have to keep clicking the arrows to side-scroll the tabs around to find what I want).
-- John
On Tue, Jun 9, 2020, at 6:05 AM, Gösta Ljungdahl wrote:
Tabs not working for you?
/gostal
Hey there,
John Gabriele wrote:
I'd like to be able to quickly move back and forth between two files.
I tried using bookmarks, but they only work for within one file.
Is there a feature or plug-in that's like bookmarks, but for files instead of locations within one file?
You can use the tabs at the top or go to the View menu and enable the Sidebar. Then you can either click the tabs at the top or the file names in the sidebar to go back and forth.
Also the split screen plugin is excellent for viewing 2 files at the same time.
On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 5:44 AM Little Girl littlergirl@gmail.com wrote:
Hey there,
John Gabriele wrote:
I'd like to be able to quickly move back and forth between two files.
I tried using bookmarks, but they only work for within one file.
Is there a feature or plug-in that's like bookmarks, but for files instead of locations within one file?
You can use the tabs at the top or go to the View menu and enable the Sidebar. Then you can either click the tabs at the top or the file names in the sidebar to go back and forth.
-- Little Girl
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Hey there,
David Topham wrote:
Also the split screen plugin is excellent for viewing 2 files at the same time.
That one is interesting. It opens an additional pane with the current document open in it, allowing you to inspect other parts of the current document in the new pane without losing your place in the original pane. Or you can open another file in the original pane so that you can access and/or compare the two documents. It even has some luxuries. There's a button that lets you open the current document in the additional pane (useful if you've changed documents) and another button to choose a document to open from a drop-down menu. Very nice plug-in. Thanks for mentioning it.
You're welcome. The only minor problem is that changes you make to the split screen don't autosave until you open that file on original screen. I just get in habit of only editing the original.
On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 8:17 AM Little Girl littlergirl@gmail.com wrote:
Hey there,t ng David Topham wrote:
Also the split screen plugin is excellent for viewing 2 files at the same time.
That one is interesting. It opens an additional pane with the current document open in it, allowing you to inspect other parts of the current document in the new pane without losing your place in the original pane. Or you can open another file in the original pane so that you can access and/or compare the two documents. It even has some luxuries. There's a button that lets you open the current document in the additional pane (useful if you've changed documents) and another button to choose a document to open from a drop-down menu. Very nice plug-in. Thanks for mentioning it.
-- Little Girl
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Yes, this is what I've been doing, and it works ok if there's only two files you want to see.
I currently have a whole bunch of files open, but am primarily working on 4 files --- 2 in one project, and 2 that look very similar in a different project. The four tabs are not anywhere near each other, and selecting and dragging the tabs to be near each other is a pain, because the GUI doesn't let the tab move beyond the end of the window, so I have to drag, drop it, click the arrow a bunch of times to move the tabs one more chunk over to one side, then go find the one I want again and drag it again, and continue until it's where I want.
It would be very useful if I could git Ctrl-. and just cycle through each of the 4 files.
-- John
On Tue, Jun 9, 2020, at 9:25 AM, David Topham wrote:
Also the split screen plugin is excellent for viewing 2 files at the same time.
On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 5:44 AM Little Girl littlergirl@gmail.com wrote:
Hey there,
John Gabriele wrote:
I'd like to be able to quickly move back and forth between two files.
I tried using bookmarks, but they only work for within one file.
Is there a feature or plug-in that's like bookmarks, but for files instead of locations within one file?
You can use the tabs at the top or go to the View menu and enable the Sidebar. Then you can either click the tabs at the top or the file names in the sidebar to go back and forth.
-- Little Girl
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On 2020-06-09 11:33 a.m., John Gabriele wrote:
Yes, this is what I've been doing, and it works ok if there's only two files you want to see.
I currently have a whole bunch of files open, but am primarily working on 4 files --- 2 in one project, and 2 that look very similar in a different project. The four tabs are not anywhere near each other, and selecting and dragging the tabs to be near each other is a pain, because the GUI doesn't let the tab move beyond the end of the window, so I have to drag, drop it, click the arrow a bunch of times to move the tabs one more chunk over to one side, then go find the one I want again and drag it again, and continue until it's where I want.
It would be very useful if I could git Ctrl-. and just cycle through each of the 4 files.
You could try the NumberedBookmarks plugin. I haven't used it and when I just tried it I couldn't get the keybindings in the README to work, but I barely tried. If I understand correctly it lets you set 9 bookmarks (presumably they can be in different files?) and use keybindings to jump to them.
Another thing that might be useful is the Commander plugin, where you can hit a keybinding and then type in a file's name and select/jump to the file.
Regards, Matthew Brush
On Tue, Jun 9, 2020, at 9:25 AM, David Topham wrote:
Also the split screen plugin is excellent for viewing 2 files at the same time.
On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 5:44 AM Little Girl littlergirl@gmail.com wrote:
Hey there,
John Gabriele wrote:
I'd like to be able to quickly move back and forth between two files.
I tried using bookmarks, but they only work for within one file.
Is there a feature or plug-in that's like bookmarks, but for files instead of locations within one file?
You can use the tabs at the top or go to the View menu and enable the Sidebar. Then you can either click the tabs at the top or the file names in the sidebar to go back and forth.
-- Little Girl
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On Tue, Jun 9, 2020, at 8:52 PM, Matthew Brush wrote:
On 2020-06-09 11:33 a.m., John Gabriele wrote:
Yes, this is what I've been doing, and it works ok if there's only two files you want to see.
I currently have a whole bunch of files open, but am primarily working on 4 files --- 2 in one project, and 2 that look very similar in a different project. The four tabs are not anywhere near each other, and selecting and dragging the tabs to be near each other is a pain, because the GUI doesn't let the tab move beyond the end of the window, so I have to drag, drop it, click the arrow a bunch of times to move the tabs one more chunk over to one side, then go find the one I want again and drag it again, and continue until it's where I want.
It would be very useful if I could git Ctrl-. and just cycle through each of the 4 files.
You could try the NumberedBookmarks plugin. I haven't used it and when I just tried it I couldn't get the keybindings in the README to work, but I barely tried. If I understand correctly it lets you set 9 bookmarks (presumably they can be in different files?) and use keybindings to jump to them.
Thanks, Matthew. I tried this, and found that while I could hit Ctrl-Shift-{1,2,3,...} to set the numbered bookmarks (in different files no less), I could not navigate to them. Well, within a single file it seemed to work using Ctrl-1 and Ctrl-2, but there's a bug and Ctrl-2 wraps the current line with `<pre><code>...</code></pre>`, then moves the bookmark. Shift-Ctrl-5 crashed Geany.
Another thing that might be useful is the Commander plugin, where you can hit a keybinding and then type in a file's name and select/jump to the file.
Ok. I installed this. I see that the Commander Command Panel has a lot of choices, but that I can start typing the filename and see some options to choose from. In my case, the files I want to jump to/from are named the same (but in different directories), and the Command Panel includes close matches in addition to exact matches, so it takes about the same amount of effort to use this as to use the Documents tab in the side bar.
I've created a feature request regarding this: https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/2523
Thanks for the help! -- John