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Re: Mathematica 8: Shortcut Ctrl+Tab for switching between notebooks?

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  • Subject: [mg118362] Re: Mathematica 8: Shortcut Ctrl+Tab for switching between notebooks?
  • From: István Zachar <zac at freemail.hu>
  • Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:26:09 -0400 (EDT)
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Dear Martin,

as far as I know, there is no handy way to reassign a shortcut key
combination to window swtiching *inside* Mathematica.
However, it is possible to use external applications, that register
clicks and key hits, and call arbitrary functions: one particularly
fitting is AutoHotkey:

http://www.autohotkey.com/

My personal solution is to assign the Win+Tab key to send Ctrl+F6 to
Mathematica (and change between Mathematica windows), and by this way,
I can rely on Alt+Tab as well to change between other windows and
Mathematica.
The AutoHotkey language is easy like hell, but since this is a
Mathematica forum, I won't flood it with example code. Email me if you
need further help.

Istvan

On Apr 22, 11:41 am, Martin Harborth <martin.harbo... at yahoo.de> wrote:
> Dear Mathematica Gurus,
>
> I'm using Mathematica 8 and I was searching today in the
> Internet but I did not find a solution for the following
> "problem":
>
> I really don't like the unhandy shortcut Ctrl+F6 for switching
> between open notebooks. Because on a Windows system I'm used
> to the convenient shortcut Ctrl+Tab for the same functionality
> in a lot of different applications.
>
> Is it really not possible to customize Mathematica key
> bindings in order to have the same shortcut in Mathematica 8?
>
> Best regards,
> Martin.



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