Keyboard shortcut to switch between tabs?

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Keyboard shortcut to switch between tabs?

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Is there a keyboard shortcut to switch between tabs? Many applications use ctrl-tab, but TextMaker just seems to insert a tab character when I use that combination.
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Re: Keyboard shortcut to switch between tabs?

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Ctrl+F6 and Ctrl+Shift+F6
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Re: Keyboard shortcut to switch between tabs?

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Thank you. Those are two-handed shortcuts for a very common action. Is there a way to modify them, or to add a second shortcut such as ctrl-tab, where ctrl-tab toggles between the current tab and the most recent tab? In my experience, this is a very common usage.

In the alternative, would the dev team be willing to add ctrl-tab (since it's not being used for any apparent purpose, and since it's the virtually universal solution to this problem) to toggle as described above?

PS: I would add that this solution would provide the best of both worlds, sequential and toggle tab switching.
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Re: Keyboard shortcut to switch between tabs?

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You can assigns these actions to any key combination by customizing the keyboard mapping.

Note that Ctrl+Tab is already in use (TextMaker: insert a tab inside a table cell; PlanMaker: switch between sheets). You can override these, but then you cannot access their original function anymore.
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Re: Keyboard shortcut to switch between tabs?

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Thank you, Martin. Given my desire to create a toggle effect, what action(s) should I customize?
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Re: Keyboard shortcut to switch between tabs?

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There is no toggle, only fwd/back.
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Re: Keyboard shortcut to switch between tabs?

Post by VLMin »

Yes, thank you, I see that. I am requesting/suggesting the addition of a toggle capability, as that suits many people's working style (my own included, of course).
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