Tab list when Ctrl-Tab (a la NetBeans or Safari)
Hi, Using Ctrl-Tab in oXygen, one can switch between the various open editor tabs. While keeping Ctrl pressed, N hits on Tab will show one after the other the next N tabs in the tab list order by last recently viewed. By comparison, NetBeans and Safari behave a little bit differently. They do not actually change the editor tab until Ctrl is released, but they display a list with all the tabs instead. See the following screenshot: http://www.fgeorges.org/tmp/netbeans-ctrl-tab-list.jpg I understand this is not good practice to change the interface of an application, but maybe this would be useful to add such a list in oXygen, even if the tabs continue to actually change each time Tab is pressed. I am used to have a huge amount of open tabs, and this list helps a lot to quickly figure out where is the tab I am looking for. This is very useful too when working with 4 or 5 files at the same time (for instance two XSLT modules, a schema module, a sample of input and a sample of output, and I don't even speak of XProc :-p.) Kind regards, -- Florent Georges http://www.fgeorges.org/
Hello Florent, We will consider displaying a list with all the tabs on Ctrl+Tab in a future version. A tabs list seems less distracting if one switches between tabs by file name, not by file content or current editing location. Thank you for your request, Sorin Florent Georges wrote:
Hi,
Using Ctrl-Tab in oXygen, one can switch between the various open editor tabs. While keeping Ctrl pressed, N hits on Tab will show one after the other the next N tabs in the tab list order by last recently viewed.
By comparison, NetBeans and Safari behave a little bit differently. They do not actually change the editor tab until Ctrl is released, but they display a list with all the tabs instead. See the following screenshot:
http://www.fgeorges.org/tmp/netbeans-ctrl-tab-list.jpg
I understand this is not good practice to change the interface of an application, but maybe this would be useful to add such a list in oXygen, even if the tabs continue to actually change each time Tab is pressed. I am used to have a huge amount of open tabs, and this list helps a lot to quickly figure out where is the tab I am looking for. This is very useful too when working with 4 or 5 files at the same time (for instance two XSLT modules, a schema module, a sample of input and a sample of output, and I don't even speak of XProc :-p.)
Kind regards,
Sorin Ristache wrote:
We will consider displaying a list with all the tabs on Ctrl+Tab in a future version.
Great! Thank you, -- Florent Georges http://www.fgeorges.org/
We will consider displaying a list with all the tabs on Ctrl+Tab in a future version.
On the same topic, is there a keystroke for moving to the next tab left-to-right, instead of in order last visited? If so, where under Menu Shortcut Keys could I assign this function? Where could I re-assign C-TAB, for that matter? Thanks.
Hello, No, there is no shortcut for moving to the next tab in the left-to-right order. You can move to any tab by clicking on the Show List button at the right end of the tab title bar or by going to menu Window where all the tab titles are listed. We will assign a shortcut to the action of the button Show List. Regards, Sorin Syd Bauman wrote:
We will consider displaying a list with all the tabs on Ctrl+Tab in a future version.
On the same topic, is there a keystroke for moving to the next tab left-to-right, instead of in order last visited? If so, where under Menu Shortcut Keys could I assign this function? Where could I re-assign C-TAB, for that matter?
Thanks.
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Syd Bauman