Navigate between entries (Back/Forward button)

[notuntoward]

After using JabRef 5 for a week, I'm really missing the forward/back buttons that were in JabRef 4.

Were these deleted on purpose? Can they be restored?

[calixtus]

I personally cannot remember, how they worked. Can you describe their functionality please?

[notuntoward]

They were just like a web browser's back and forward buttons: you click the back button and you go to the entry you were at just before the one you are currently on. Click back again, and you go another step backwards in time. Forward does the opposite.

I used to use them constantly, for going back and forth between related papers, comparing ideas between them, or linking them together with comments.

On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 9:17 AM Carl Christian Snethlage < [email protected]> wrote:

I personally cannot remember, how they worked. Can you describe their functionality please?

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[Siedlerchr]

You can still navigate using the arrow keys up/down

[notuntoward]

@Siedlerchr The arrow keys don't navigate history, as far as I can tell.

For example, if the cursor is in the comment window, the arrow keys cause it scroll up or down a line; if the cursor is in the entry table, the arrow keys also only scroll up and down a line, but in the entry table.

@calixtus is this the kind of feeback you were looking for?

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[notuntoward]

Hey there, I'm getting a "stale status" warning, but I did provide the requested info. @Siedlerchr or @calixtus are you there?

[calixtus]

Hi @notuntoward , sorry for the delay. I really can't remember, that JabRef had this feature, but that does not mean, that it had not. However, i'm going to remove the stale and waiting label, so this issue won't be closed, but kept open for someone, who is interested in working on this. We keep this feature in mind, maybe put this on proposal for a small university project, but please accept my apology, that we mainly try to bugfix at the moment and to prepare JabRef for release of version 5.1.

[notuntoward]

Thanks for the reply.

You can try out the back/forward buttons by installing JabRef 4.x, the latest of which is available here. I've reverted to 4.x because 5.x lacks these controls.

Below is a screenshot showing the back/forward buttons on the the 4.3.1 main menu.

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