[Github-comments] [geany/geany] shortcut editor: add in "Focus" the shortcut: toggle editor/sidebar (#2914)

[xiota]

@elextr 

> ... especially when its related to a pane added by a plugin thats not always present...
> why do you need to shift focus to an output only preview, doesn't it update automagically?

The preview pane does update itself, but if the changed area is out of view, the user would have to scroll manually, since I don't know how to locate the position of changes in the preview pane.  Normally, I would use my touchpad to scroll, but I suppose some people might prefer to change focus and use the keyboard.

My understanding of the way a toggle like this would function is that it would apply to the sidebar as a whole.  So it would be more useful for the Symbols, Documents, and Tree Browser tabs than for the Preview pane.  Toggles are also nice because they reduce the number of shortcuts I have to remember.

Another way a shortcut could work is to just move in sequence among whichever of the editor, sidebar, and message window are visible.

> Geany and Geany-plugins are currently in string freeze, and so its unlikely anything will be added before release, since I expect adding a keybinding in the plugin will add a string to its UI.

Could that be why a [PR I opened to fix a bug in the Markdown plugin](https://github.com/geany/geany-plugins/pull/1111) has received zero responses?  It doesn't change any user-facing strings, but does use strings to store some javascript.

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