Thanks for the quick reply. I somehow managed to overlook "Allow Keyboard Focus" in "Sidebar" which solves my issue. Mark
On Saturday, October 12, 2024 at 5:03:10 PM UTC-7 Rich Siegel wrote: > On 12 Oct 2024, at 19:45, Mark Bowron wrote: > > > To click a filename in the sidebar and start typing immediately (instead > of > > clicking again in the editor), I tried > > Here is the relevant excerpt from the BBEdit 15.0 change notes: > > === > > The Sidebar preferences have a setting: "Allow keyboard focus". When this > is turned on (as it is by default, or if you previously used the expert > preference), the sidebar lists in projects, and multi-document windows can > acquire keyboard focus (by clicking or tabbing into them), and then > conventional keyboard navigation gestures will change the selection. > > With this change, sidebar behavior is changed somewhat (tl;dr: it's like > Xcode): > > the selection highlighting reflects whether or not the sidebar has > keyboard focus; the background always reflects the activation state of the > window. > > When you click in the side bar to select something, keyboard focus goes > there (assuming the preference in "Sidebar" is turned on, as it is by > default now). Any single click will select a new file, but does not move > keyboard focus to the text view. You can double-click on an item, press > Return/Enter, or use the Tab key to move keyboard focus as desired. > > === > > Enjoy, > > R. > > -- > Rich Siegel Bare Bones Software, Inc. > <[email protected]> <https://www.barebones.com/> > > Someday I'll look back on all this and laugh... until they sedate me. > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or believe that the application isn't working correctly, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Mastodon: <https://mastodon.social/@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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/c52b88a4-8601-4a6f-8463-7533f6d1e14bn%40googlegroups.com.
