Thanks, Patrick for the useful cribbing. Any tricks for getting the focus on the [project’s] file list WITHOUT having to click on it (i.e., without taking our hands off the keyboard)?
We want to save EVERY calorie that we can. Alfredo > On Mar 6, 2018, at 12:50 PM, Patrick Woolsey <[email protected]> wrote: > > There is an expert pref which you can set to allow the file list to gain > keyboard focus. Cribbing from the "Expert Preferences" page of the Help book: > ======== > > Projects > > * In project windows, the file list does not accept keyboard focus by > default, unless the editing view is hidden. You can modify this so > that the file list gets the focus whenever you click on it: > > [ by issuing the following Terminal command on a single line ] > > defaults write com.barebones.bbedit ProjectsListCanAcquireKeyboardFocus > -bool YES > > ======== > > > Regards, > > Patrick Woolsey > == > Bare Bones Software, Inc. <http://www.barebones.com/> > > > On 3/5/18 at 6:07 PM, [email protected] (Brian Christiansen) wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> After searching the user manual (love that thing) and this group, I can't >> find anything on getting around within the sidebar without taking my hands >> off the keyboard. >> What I am picturing is, >> >> 1. Key combo to shift focus to the sidebar >> 2. Keys to move through the hierarchy, in the manner of navigating the >> Finder from the keyboard. >> 3. Perhaps CMD-O to open a file >> 4. Key combo to shift focus back to the editor pane. >> >> Am I just missing it? I've wanted to do this for years, and have never >> gotten around to asking. The majority of my work is within Projects, so for >> me the Sidebar is there 95% of the time. >> >> Thank you, >> ~brian >> > > -- > This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature > request or would like to report a problem, please email > "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. > Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BBEdit Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit.
