In the Komodo IDE, ctrl+tab switches between the current tab and the last tab. I'm used to Visual Studio where, as long as I keep the ctrl key pressed, I can keep pressing tab to go to older tabs. In Komodo, this is true too, but only if I press tab again in what feels like about a 1/2 second! If I press ctrl+tab and pause for a second with the ctrl key down, pressing tab again returns me to the tab I was just on. (A little hard to explain, but easy to demonstrate.) It makes for hectic tab navigation because I can barely pause to see what tab I switched to without reseting. I'm not sure what the intended behavior was, or if it's configurable. Can someone point me to the ctrl+tab behavior description documentation? I wasn't able to find anything.
Also, anyone else notice this?
Thanks~
Ctrl+TAB does take you to the last tab in the tab cycle, and you are correct, the timing of that is fiarly quick. Based on what you are saying, you might be a lot happier using Ctrl+PageUp / Ctrl+PageDown to cycle through editor tabs. They work slightly differently in that they cycle through tabs in the order that they are displayed ( Left <==> Right ) *not* in the order they were last viewed.
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JeffG
I am in Komodo IDE 5 and would like to switch the Ctrl+TAB with the Ctrl+PageUp / Ctrl+PageDown behavior.
thanks
Yes, you can use Komodo's "Editor->Key Bindings" preferences to change the behaviour. Pressing "Ctrl+TAB" keys in the "New Key Sequence" will show you the command that is currently using the keybinding, then you can add/remove the keybindings as you wish.
Cheers,
Todd
just what I needed! and what a quick response! +1 Komodo
Thanks, that ctrl+pgup/dn is a good tip. I think I ran across that by accident once. I like the previous-tab mechanism of ctrl+tab. I was hoping that the timing was configurable, or disable-able. I would configure it, if I could, to never reset until I let go of the ctrl key.
Feature requested! :)
Thanks again for your prompt reply.
I second this feature request. I often have a dozen or so files open, and rely on ctrl-tab to switch between a few recently opened files, but often pause along the way to see if I'm looking at the file I want. The timeout mucks with this approach.
I've got Komodo 5.1 now, and I love the quick open feature.
However, ctrl+tab and ctrl+shift+tab don't behave like they used to in 5.0. In fact, I can't figure how what the new behavior or timing is. I just get lost when I use them now, and that's a hard habit to break.
Sometimes it toggles between two tabs, sometimes it seems to rotate between more than two tabs, but skip some tabs all together. I can't figure it out.
Thanks for any advice.
There was a bug in Komodo 5.1.0 that made the ctrl-tab handling act strangely, which was fixed with the 5.1.1 release, see:
http://bugs.activestate.com/show_bug.cgi?id=82474
We still have one remaining bug on the Mac with ctrl-tab handling, which may be the one your currently running into:
http://bugs.activestate.com/show_bug.cgi?id=82462
Cheers,
Todd