Add Tab History And Alt+Arrow Macro

[RyanPotat]

Feature Request:

Implement Alt+Arrow Key Navigation for Tab History in Chatterino

Many people rely on Alt+Arrow key shortcuts in browsers and IDEs to quickly navigate through their tab history. I believe implementing a similar feature in Chatterino would greatly enhance its usability. It has also been a standard feature in Windows and Mac for many years.

I think this enhancement would be a natural fit for Chatterino. 😄

[pajlada]

Could you give an example of where this feature is implemented, and what it's actually meant to do?
Alt+left arrow is the same as pressing the back button in my browser, but that does nothing with tabs.

[Nerixyz]

At least in VS Code you go back to the previous location. This might be the previous cursor position (after clicking) or the previous file (after go-to-definition). It's defined as "go back". Thus, I feel like this should be on split granularity rather than tabs.

[RyanPotat]

As Neri said, in VS Code with this you can jump to last cursor positions, even across files. I feel it could be a valuable feature in chatterino for users who have many tabs and often jump between them.

I may have reached by drawing similarity to the browser shortcut as yes that is simply back and forwards on a single tab, sorry for confusion.

Of course the macro could be changed to anything, the history of previously focused tabs/splits is what I am suggesting.

So if I have my own tab focused and swap to pajlada's tab, I can instantly swap back to my own tab. And then, until I focus another tab, I could go forwards back to pajlada's tab again. I feel like applying this to both tabs and splits is logical as well.

[pajlada]

Makes sense, I'm OK with both "split history" and "tab history" being tracked & used in hotkeys.

[pajlada]

I formalized the feature request for tab history in #6063

If you have any other important details to add feel to do so in the issue