Barbara, if you go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts, do you have the radio button at the bottom set to "All controls"?
Changing it to "Text boxes and lists only" may change the behavior you're describing, so you only have to hit that key chord once, not three times, to change focus in BBEdit. --Kerri On Thu, Feb 7, 2019, 5:06 PM Barbara Snyder <[email protected] wrote: > Brian -- > > What I have discovered (noted earlier) is the following: > > If I am in the editing window, pressing ctrl-shift-tab THREE times gets me > to the list of files at the top of the sidebar. > > Then I can use arrow keys to go up and down, and press Enter to open (if > the file is not already open). > > Then ctrl-tab THREE times gets me back to the editing window. > > -- Barbara > > On Monday, March 5, 2018 at 3:08:18 PM UTC-8, 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 need technical support, please email > "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. > Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://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 need technical support, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://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.
