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Enable MRU behaviour for document switcher

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Nobody/Anonymous
2007-01-24
2012-11-13

  • Nobody/Anonymous

    Nobody/Anonymous - 2007-01-24

    Brilliant! The last piece of functionality that my old TextPad editor had that Notepad++ didn't has now been added.

    It is so convenient to Ctrl+Tab to a file to maybe cut/paste some text and then Ctrl+Tab back to the document you were last working on, rather than simply the next document in the list.

    Thank you.

    I do however have a request.

    In 3.9 I turned off the "Enable document switcher" option because, from a usability point of view I found it distracting when it popped up as I typically am watching the tabs each time I press Ctrl+Tab and having something pop up over my document was annoying (plus it stops the tabs from "animating" until you've Ctrl+Tabbed to your chosen document.

    In 4.0 ss it not technically possible to allow users to tick the "Enable MRU behaviour" and at the same time not display the "document switcher", rather letting users focus on the tabs which show document focus perfectly?

    A small technicality I know but from the "hurrah!" I made when I saw the option to the "oh dear" I made when I realised I HAD to have the "document switcher" enabled it would, for me, make Notepad++ complete.

    Thanks again for all your work on this excellent editor.

    Charley Farley

     

    • Nobody/Anonymous

      Nobody/Anonymous - 2007-01-25

      I've just had a thought and, knowing that you are a big fan of the document switcher I realised that it's not so much the fact that it appears that I dislike but the fact that the animation of the tabs (to show the current tab) doesn't work when the document switcher is enabled and used with Ctrl+Tab.

      It would be fine to have the document switcher enabled as long as the tab animation also worked with the document switcher enabled.

      Is this possible?

      Remember, in good UI design, the aim is to provide behaviour that users expect from certain controls. We expect tabbed controls to animate and show us which document we're switching to and this works exactly as you'd expect with the document switcher disabled but to remove this behavour when the document switcher is enabled affects usability of Notepad++ from a UI point of view -- you're changing behavour of the control.