Keyboard Shortcut

[Zach C]

I have View menu -> Document Tabs selected. This creates tabs at the bottom of the window for the files that I have open. What is the keyboard shortcut to change between the tabs?

Thanks.


Zach

[Roy Beatty]

From TextPad Help:

How to Switch to a File's Window<br>
Do one of the following:<br>
Click anywhere in the window.

Choose the window name from the Window menu.

Double click the window name in the Document Selector.

Press Ctrl+F6 or Ctrl+Tab to cycle through the active source windows one at a time.


HTH, Roy

[Carlyle Sutphen]

Hey, Zack,

expounding on Roy's help, ctrl+tab always cycles to the most recently viewed files first. As soon as you choose, say, the fourth most recently viewed file, it becomes the second most recently viewed file.

I usually have two files at any given time which I flip back and forth between so that comes in very handy for me.

Another interesting thing I've observed but not yet found a use for is that if you cycle completely through the file list and release the ctrl key on the file you started on, you have completely reversed the cycle order. To avoid that, say you only want to take a quick peek at the fourth file and go back to the original without changing the cycle order, assuming what you want to peek at is visible when #4 comes around, keep the ctrl key depressed and press the shift key in addition and tab backwards to the original file.

Carlyle

[B. Gauvreau]

I have a related question/issue in this general area. I am still using an older 4.1 version of TP, don't know if that matters. I often work with multiple files at once. When I open a number of files (file1, file2, file3, file4), I would expect the "WindowNext" command to cycle "forward" from file1 to 2 to 3 etc., but I find it goes backwards, 4 to 3 to 2 to 1. I used to use the Brief editor so I am using that keyboard mapping, with a keyboard shortcut of Alt+N for WindowNext. I found I seem to be able to get around the problem by remapping Alt+N to WindowPrev, that causes the files to cycle in the "forward" manner I am expecting.
As such the behaviour for WindowNext and WindowPrev behave backwards to what I am expecting. Is my expectation somehow not correct?, is this a known problem? Thanks all.

[J McCune Porter]

URLs in TXT files highlight blue (default, text.syn file in use) as expected. Selected text also highlights in color, background and foreground, as it should.

I can't get any other highlighting to appear however, for example brackets or single comments. I've tried modifying text.syn and tried creating a mytext.syn file, to no avail; brackets or comment characters as written in the modified text.syn file below do not take on the default colors in a (closed then reopened) TXT file.

TEXT=1

[Syntax]
Namespace1 = 6
IgnoreCase = Yes
InitKeyWordChars = A-Za-z_
KeyWordChars = A-Za-z0-9_
BracketChars = <>
OperatorChars =
PreprocStart =
SyntaxStart =
SyntaxEnd =
CommentStart =
CommentEnd =
CommentStartAlt =
CommentEndAlt =
SingleComment = \
SingleCommentCol =
SingleCommentAlt =
SingleCommentColAlt =
StringStart =
StringEnd =
StringAlt =
StringEsc =
CharStart =
CharEnd =
CharEsc =

[Carlyle Sutphen]

I suppose it's a matter of taste. I personally prefer the window stack to be related to last usage rather than being hard linked. The way it win TextPad is the way it works on the windows desktop, for example. As a matter of fact, I can't think of a tool I use that cycles through the windows in a fixed order.

It's been ages since I used brief. Must've been back in the 80's. It's still around?