Add key-combos to switch files

[humdingerb]

The previous/next file arrow icons and the close icon at the right of the toolbar aren't that useful.

Their functions can be reached more easily/intuitively: click or mouse wheel over the tabs, click their close button or ALT+W. It would be more useful to offer a key-combo to switch through the open files, e.g. CTRL+CursorLeft/Right. That way you could quickly move through the open files without having to reach for the mouse.

For discoverability, it could be added to the "View" menu: "Go to previous file - CTRL+CursorLeft" "Go to next file - CTRL+CursorRight"

[jackburton79]

Too late for 2.0, we'll consider this for the next release

[jackburton79]

Aren't those shortcuts used by textcontrols nowadays?

[humdingerb]

Word-wise jumping in textcontrols is done with ALT+cursor (= B_COMMAND_KEY). That one is used in Genio's editor view as well. CTRL+cursor currently inserts some control character in the editor view. If instead we'd switch tabs, we'll have a winner.

[jackburton79]

Now that I see, there is already a shortcut to switch between tabs: option key + left / right arrow. Does it make sense to switch to CTRL ? @Freaxed @nexus6-haiku what do you think ?

[humdingerb]

I wasn't aware of OPT+cursor switching tabs already. Unfortunately, it collides with S&T's OPT+left/right which switches tabs of stacked windows.

So, if you've stacked other windows to the Genio window, OPT+cursor doesn't work anymore to switch tabs within Genio.

[jackburton79]

Ok, let's change then

[jackburton79]

Currently ALT+N is used to switch to the Nth tab (as in Webpositive). Would have been nicer to have some consistency: now you'd have ALT+N to switch to the Nth tab and CTRL+LEFT/RIGHT to switch between tabs. Too bad. I guess we'd have to rethink shortcuts system-wide in Haiku