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NetBeans should use the Firefox (and many other) convention of control-tab switching tabs in the editor, and shift-control-tab switching tabs the other way. Right now, hitting control-tab brings up a little context menu of the available editor panes; I don't see how that's better than just switching me to the pane in the first place, and dropping that context menu.
Product Version: NetBeans Ruby IDE 070625 Java: 1.6.0_01; Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 1.6.0_01-b06 System: Windows Vista version 6.0 running on x86; Cp1252; en_US (nbrubyide) Userdir: C:\Users\James\AppData\Roaming\.nbrubyide\dev
This is all about usability and probably every user has its own opinion. A lot of NetBeans users are used to this. I'm using Firefox, had been using Eclipse and using NetBeans and I really like the current behavior. Moreover when you release the Ctrl+Tab in 200ms (IIRC) the popup does not appear at all. It's just all about the habit and a lot of current user likes it. So it is rather about the question whether to support customizable behavior somehow. Reassigning to appropriate component. Also AFAIK Eclipse's Ctrl+F6 behaves very similar way.
Fair enough, although after using NetBeans a little more I'd still describe the current behavior as unpleasant and abnormal. Firefox and IE don't agree with the way you do tabbed browsing, and switching to NetBeans behavior is always jarring. Releasing the keys quickly isn't related to the weirdness; the problem is that I expect control-tab so allow me to page through the open tabs, seeing the content. It'd be nice to have an option to get that behavior.
> It'd be nice to have an option to get that behavior. It is there. You can go to Menu: Tools -> Options -> Keymap. There are some predefined profiles, like NetBeans, Eclipse, Emacs. Also you can assign your own keybinding for particular actions only. E.g. Go To -> Previous Tab (Ctrl+PageUp) Next Tab (Ctrl+PageDown) So it is customizable. This enhancement is just about the default binding.
That's a fine solution - I'd just close this report then. Except that control-pageup and control-pagedown don't do anything in Windows, but I think that's a different bug than this one. (I submitted http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=109150)
control-pageup/pagedown are working to change tabs in windows in build: Product Version: NetBeans Ruby IDE 070725 Java: 1.6.0_01; Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 1.6.0_01-b06 System: Windows Vista version 6.0 running on x86; Cp1252; en_US (nbrubyide) Userdir: C:\Users\James\AppData\Roaming\.nbrubyide\dev (I'd close this, but I don't know if you want submitters to close bugs, or to leave that to eng/qa)
closing as fixed (see the previous comment)
The fix does not solve the issue of users wanting to have ctrl+tab/ctrl+shift+tab customized. Regardless of what I map those keys to, the dialog box is still opened. I currently have ctrl+tab set to "next tab" and ctrl+shift+tab set to "previous tab," but to no avail. Running 7.2 (Build 201207171143)
(In reply to comment #8) > The fix does not solve the issue of users wanting to have > ctrl+tab/ctrl+shift+tab customized. Regardless of what I map those keys to, > the dialog box is still opened. I currently have ctrl+tab set to "next tab" > and ctrl+shift+tab set to "previous tab," but to no avail. > > Running 7.2 (Build 201207171143) Please file a new enhancement issue if you want to have Ctrl+Tab keys customized.