True enough, but that's a VERY akward key combination.  Ctrl-Tab is the

standard for doing this in the Windows environment, and it's really annoying

that not only is this standard not supported, but can't be supported.

I've tried mapping the Alt-arrow keys to Ctrl Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab, but

they don't "take".  They're just ignored.

Additionally the Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab have a feature that the

Alt-Arrow doesn't have.  When you hold down ctrl, each press of Tab takes

you to the 'next' editor.  When you release the ctrl key, the editor you

STARTED on becomes the new previous editor, so that a simple Ctrl-Tab will

instantly take you back to where you were.  Thus you can toggle between any

two files very easily with ONE key press.  With the Alt-Arrow setup, I have

to remember which file is which, so I can press the correct key (Alt-left,

or Alt-right... or Ctrl-Alt-left, or Ctrl-Alt-right) to get where I want to

go.

I would very very very much like to see Ctrl-Tab/Ctrl-Shift-Tab supported.

Or at least mappable.  And I'd like the "next/previous editor" functions to

actually modify the tab order, in the way described above, so that

navigation is much easier.  This is one of my biggest annoyances with the

IDEA editor/tab system, and it causes me no end of frustration.

"Simon Lieschke" <simon.lieschke@orion.co.nz> wrote in message

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You can cycle through editor tabs using the alt key with the left and

right

arrow keys.  Irritating to get used to at first, but I'd rather see many

other things implemented correctly in Ariadna (like not saving the

project,

structure, etc. tab layout in project files instead of once in the global

IDE configuration) before allowing ctrl-tab to be used if desired for

cycling between editors.

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"news.intellij.net" <andrem@powerenterprise.com> wrote in message

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That would be a pretty cool feature, in my opinion.

Basicly the same way Opera does theyre tab switching.

ctrl-tab has a editor context menu popup kinda like alt-tab does for

windows.

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check out http://www.opera.com to see what it looks like.

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I thought i rememberd reading that ariadna would have an all new tab

interface but they still seem the same thusfar into eap and see no

mention

of it on the feature list. Adding a global close icon on the editor tab

bar

would be useful too.

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Well, editor tabs are conceptually very much like layered internal

windows, with the limitation that only one is visible at a time.  But it

might be confusing to use the same metaphor for both "docked/tiled

windows" and "layered windows" (though a "pop-up cycle panel" like

Windows Alt-Tab would help if the labels/icons were clear).  Of course,

making it configurable might solve that problem (as with almost

everything else :-)  ).  Too bad there isn't another handy modifier

key somewhere...

-Alex Dommasch

Carlos Costa e Silva wrote:

It's very bad of Windows to override control-tab to mean multiple

incompatible things.

 

>>True enough, but that's a VERY akward key combination.  Ctrl-Tab is the

>>standard for doing this in the Windows environment, and it's really

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annoying

 

>>that not only is this standard not supported, but can't be supported.

>>I've tried mapping the Alt-arrow keys to Ctrl Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab, but

>>they don't "take".  They're just ignored.

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It is and it's not

 

Ctrl-[shift-]Tab is and has always been the Windows standard to navigate

between internal windows/panels - this since Windows 2 at least.

 

This behaviour is the same in Swing.

Idea also has the same behaviour: Control-[shift-]Tab navigates between open

panels.

 

Both the windows and the metal look and feel use Control-PgUp/PgDn navigate

between tabs - maybe they should be added to the default keymap as such.

 

In windows there are applications that use this keys, Excel for example uses

Control-PgUp/PgDn to navigate between sheets(tabs) - and I think that Excel

was there before tab panels become standard (become a part of the api) in

Windows..

This is a bug in the Windows ui implementation - and a sign of someone not

looking at standards - that the Control-tab is overriden to mean both

things: navigate internal windows and navigate tab panels.

 

I definitely say -1 to change the standard: Control-[Shift-]Tab should

continue to cycle between the internal windows in the IDE.

 

 

>>I would very very very much like to see Ctrl-Tab/Ctrl-Shift-Tab supported.

>>Or at least mappable.  And I'd like the "next/previous editor" functions

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to

 

>>actually modify the tab order, in the way described above, so that

>>navigation is much easier.  This is one of my biggest annoyances with the

>>IDEA editor/tab system, and it causes me no end of frustration.

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I think I would like this - changing the order of tab traversal to a LRU

order.

 

Carlos

 

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Carlos Costa e Silva <carlos@keysoft.pt>

 

 

Except that requires the user to press enter, which is a huge annoyance, as

I generally either have to move my left hand off the keyboard all the way

over to the other side, or bring my mouse hand off the mouse over to press

enter.  I want ONE KEY PRESS to do this.  Or at least something I can do

one-handed (like Ctrl-E and then Ctrl-E again to select the default one...

or hell, even space, just something other than ENTER that is near-by).

Is there a point to bringing up the list?  Can't repeated pressings of

Ctrl+E (with ctrl held down) just cycle through, just as has been described

with the Ctrl-Tab functionality?

"dimiter@bet" <dimiter@blue-edge.bg> wrote in message

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for MRU cycling use Ctrl+E

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