How can I make control-tab (and control-shift-tab) behave sensibly in Notepad++? I would like these shortcuts to behave as they do in my web browser, ie. control-tab moves focus to the next tab to the right, control-shift-tab to the tab to the left. Currently they change tab seemingly at random.
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Since asking this question I defected to the editor Sublime Text http://www.sublimetext.com/3 – Colonel Panic Jan 29 '14 at 21:04
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- Browse the menu Settings > Preferences > MISC.
- Look for the box Document Switcher
- Uncheck "Enable" checkbox (that will untick "Enable MRU behaviour" too)
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14MRU is Most Recently Used. It switches between the tabs based on which ones were used most recently. – Dracs Aug 20 '12 at 10:43
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This answer by Luke Scammell has a very full explanation, as well as instructions for creating your own preferred keyboard shortcuts (I prefer Alt+LeftArrow and Alt+RightArrow).
Note that in the current version of NP++ (6.6.7) the lines to change in Settings / Shortcut Mapper are lines 219/220 (about 7 up from bottom of list).
Also, Luke includes an autohotkey macro/script that allows you to retain the default NP++ behaviour, but still use your preferred keyboard shortcuts in addition to the defaults.
