Notebook tab keybindings (was Re: [Geany] revisiting default keyboard shortcuts: a proposed solution)

Nick Treleaven nick.treleaven at xxxxx
Thu Sep 6 17:33:44 UTC 2007


On 09/06/2007 05:16:13 PM, Enrico Tröger wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 13:22:52 +0100, Nick Treleaven
> <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 09/06/2007 08:36:56 AM, John Gabriele wrote:
> > > * Alt-{Home,End} -- Go to first tab (like Alt-1), and last tab
> > > (Alt-0)? Just an idea here, but these two combos seem to just 
> flow
> > > nicely from the rest of the Alt keys dealing with the GUI. Also,
> > > Enrico, you noted that someone once mentioned that numbers keys 
> > > aren't
> > > always easy to hit on some keyboards, so maybe Alt-{Home,End}
> would 
> > > be
> > > easier than Alt-{1,0} for some users?
> > > 
> > I'm thinking of adding something like that, that's easier to type
> > than the number keys.
> Yes sounds good. Alt-{Home,End} are currently used by Scintilla for
> "Go
> to start/end of display line." but I guess we could drop this binding
> without replacement(IMO).
> 
I think we could use Ctrl-Shift-{PgDn, PgUp} for this. Then it's just a 
Shift extension of switching notebook pages normally.

Also, I'm thinking of adding Alt-{PgDn, PgUp} to move the current tab, 
with wraparound.

Regards,
Nick



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