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This might end up as several enhancements when examined in more detail. 1. It would be nice if the back and forward buttons found on Wwindows PC's mice/keyboards could be allocated as a particular key map. 2. The back and forward buttons found at the top of each editor window work in strange ways that make little sense. I suggest they should work like a browsers back/forward buttons by going back/forward to the document previously displayed, in order that they were displayed. So if I have documents open and click on them from left to right and then use the back button 5 times they should display from right to left. Clicking on forward 5 times would display them again from left to right. I understand they currently follow the ctrl click links I made so perhaps the default could be to do that and by ctrl clicking they would go back forward as I have discribed. 3. Default the key mapping of the editor windows back/forward buttons to the PC's back forward buttons found on the mouse/keyboard. 4. When I split my IDE into multipule editor windows, moving a editor window from some section to another should display the previously accessed editor window in the old section. As though I had clicked the back button as per my description of how the back button might work. At the moment it selects the documen at the end tab. It makes no sense and this is very frustrating. 5. Add a list of open documents to the Window menu, perhaps as a sub menu and keep them sorted in the order they were last accessed (ie clicked on). This is effectivly the order the back/forward buttons work in. These ideas are based around how I use the MS Visual Studio Enviroment (Heavean forbid). Although not directly implemented in VS the window menu lists the previous windows. I use the <ALT> W 2 key sequence to navigate back/forwards through the documents in the editor to great effect.
Thanks for the ideas. #2 and #4 are covered by issue #123343 and I added you comments there. #1 and #3 is what this issue is about and I'm moving it under the 'Key bindings' section. #5 is IMO a request for window system and I filed issue #134237 for it.
As for #1 and #3 the question is how these are mapped to KeyEvent in JDK. If the buttons are mapped to some virtual key constants than you should be able to add them in Tools-Options -> Keymap. If they are not I am not sure how much we can do in Netbeans.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 222848 ***