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Originally Posted by KevinH
So if you want to navigate someplace and open a new tab, you can already do that via the keyboard with no need to change focus.
Since the Table of Contents is a generated table, navigating via BookBrowser or keyboard shortcuts from CodeView would be more complete and is already possible.
So how would hitting return/enter in BookBrowser be equivalently handled in the TableOf Contents and why is it really needed since keyboard equivalents already exist.
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I must confess that I have never used the 'Next File' and 'Previous File' shortcuts mostly because my usual editing experience involves going between non-consecutive files, chasing a particular thread in a book. So inevitably this involved clicking with a pointer tool. Now that we have been liberated from this dependence upon the mouse, I can transfer focus to the Browser and use the arrow keys to get to the next file I need and hitting return opens it in a new tab (I'm on Linux).
But in practice, the various files in an epub have generic names like Chapter-x.xhtml which are displayed in the Book Browser, and these are not very informative as to the contents. I do realise that we can edit these generic names, but that's an additional job.
The TOC shows actual book content and often at several levels of depth which permits better navigation. Our liberation permits getting direct focus on the TOC and it would be good if a hit on Enter could open the selected chapter in the Code Pane.
Your next post indicates significant differences between Windows/Linux platforms and MacOS. I'm speaking for myself on linux and my reasons are based on my editing practices.