[racket] keyboard shortcut for jumping between definitions & interactions windows

TIL how to shift focus.

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>wrote:

> What happens if you search for "shift-focus" in the keybindings
> window. Do you see any keybindings?
>
> Robby
>
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Benjamin Atkin <batkin at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > I wanted a way to jump from the interactions window to the definitions
> > window. First I checked the View menu and then I checked the Keyboard
> > Shortcuts section in the Dr. Racket manual. I didn't find it in either
> > place. I did find an undocumented way in the mailing list, which is to
> use
> > C-x o, which doesn't work for me. I also found C-d and C-e, which do
> indeed
> > get me between the windows, but in the process hide them. I like to have
> > both showing at the same time so it doesn't quite work for me.
> >
> > I think the keyboard system and the help system (with search) are great
> in
> > general, and this is a glaring omission. How about creating new shortcuts
> > that go between interactions and definitions and documenting them in the
> > manual, and maybe even adding them to the menu?
> >
> > Actually by making the states more complicated, I think it could be
> added in
> > a somewhat reasonable way without adding more shortcuts. Right now if
> both
> > interactions and definitions are shown, Ctrl+D hides definitions and
> Ctrl+E
> > hides interactions, regardless of which is currently focused. Now, how
> about
> > if you could only hide the one that is currently focused with that
> shortcut?
> > That is, if definitions was focused, Ctrl+D would hide the definitions,
> but
> > Ctrl+E wouldn't hide the interactions. Instead, Ctrl+E would focus the
> > interactions. Then, because the focus was changed to Interactions, the
> > Interactions could be hidden in this way. To complete this, the Show
> > Interactions when only the Definitons is shown would need a slight
> change of
> > behavior: invoking this would also focus the Interactions window.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ben
> >
> >
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