Tab switching keyboard shortcuts

[fletcher_lynd@…]

I find the keyboard shortcuts for switching channel tabs inconsistent. First, as a Safari user, I would expect tabs to be switched by Command+Shift+Arrow. Second, with focus on the chat input line, as Shift+Arrow selects text letter by letter, and Command+Shift+Arrow selects the whole line, one would expect Command+Arrow to move cursor to the beginning of the line (as in many Mac applications) but that switches tabs.

This is a very minor annoynce, though, but I would really like to see Command+Shift+Arrow to switch tabs, and the shortcuts for selecting text to be adjusted accordingly.

[rinoa]

Tabs are switched by cmd+arrow to the next available tab. Cmd+opt+arrow goes to the next tab with activity. This has been our behaviour for a while with a couple people suggesting 'different' ways of doing it. No two ways the same. We're quite happy with what we currently do and it will be staying this way.

[jidar]

I'd just like to be able to OPT-1, OPT-2 for the first and second window. This is a hard habit to break from years and years of using irssi.

[mdippery]

If I may butt in, there are some good usability reasons for changing this keyboard shortcut. In text fields, Cmd+Right/Left Arrow move to the end and beginning of the text field, respectively. So if the focus is on the keyboard shortcut, one cannot Cmd+Arrow to the next tab anymore; in other words, this functionality is broken.

It might be a good idea to go the Safari route and use Cmd+{ and Cmd+} to switch tabs. Maybe even both keyboard shortcuts (Cmd+Arrows and Cmd+Braces) could be available (or you could take the Adium route and make this user-configurable).

[petersendidit]

I agree with mdippery here. Having cmd + arrow makes it so that the default ability to move the cursor to the end or beginning of the text input break. Also cmd+{ and cmd+} have become default keyboard shortcuts for changing tabs in most tabbed programs on the Mac. If anything these keyboard shortcuts should be user configurable.