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<p dir="auto">That is how it works, as long as you have clicked on the Document List panel.</p>
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<p dir="auto">OK, yes, just clicking an item in the list and pressing any key does not work (that’s what I tried).</p>
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<p dir="auto">But if you click on the Document List title, it will change to a highlighted title bar, like:<br />
Maybe such a mouse over hover field, don’t know the name, saying this would be good. Is there a shortcut which could do what that mouse click does?</p>
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<p dir="auto">Many thanks, also for updating the help.</p>
]]></description><link>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/94567</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/94567</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cletos]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 19:32:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Is there a way to somehow jump to a document by pressing a key in the &quot;Document list&quot;? on Wed, 01 May 2024 15:01:51 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/uid/2756">@Cletos</a> said in <a href="/post/94557">Is there a way to somehow jump to a document by pressing a key in the "Document list"?</a>:</p>
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<p dir="auto">This forum uses “Markdown” syntax, not “BBCode”.</p>
<p dir="auto">If you don’t want to use the “image link” button (the button that looks like a landscape painting on the edit-your-post toolbar), then the syntax you should use is:</p>
<pre><code>![](https://i.imgur.com/gSXDtbc.png)
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<p dir="auto">which would have shown as</p>
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<p dir="auto"><img src="https://camo.nodebb.org/706dea2a5f30d49aae4159bcd64afc111ba12be8?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FgSXDtbc.png" alt="" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" /></p>
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<p dir="auto">Now, on to your question:</p>
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<p dir="auto">Is there a way to somehow jump to a document by pressing a key in the “Document list”? E.g. pressing P would jump to the first txt file in that list beginning with a P.</p>
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<p dir="auto">That <em>is</em> how it works, as long as you have clicked on the Document List panel.</p>
<p dir="auto">Your screenshot shows it’s not the active panel, so your keystrokes are currently being seen by some other panel (or your editing window).</p>
<p dir="auto">But if you click on the <strong>Document List</strong> title, it will change to a highlighted title bar, like:<br />
<img src="/assets/uploads/files/1714572646399-e15b9700-99e8-4a85-a0b4-554a37de276a-image.png" alt="e15b9700-99e8-4a85-a0b4-554a37de276a-image.png" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" /><br />
… at which point, hitting <code>a</code> or <code>b</code> or <code>c</code> will go to the file starting with that.</p>
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<li>You can then hit ENTER to activate that file (which will also move your typing to be in that file, rather than in Document List).</li>
<li>Or you can use an up/down arrow to navigate to a different one first.</li>
<li>To be able to type a letter again, once you’ve already letter-navigated to one (for example, if you had typed <code>c</code> and changed your mind and want to go to <code>a</code> instead), you need to either click on the Document List title bar again, or use an arrow (up/down/left/right) before typing.  So doing <code>c</code> then <code>right arrow</code> then <code>a</code> will navigate you to <code>c</code>, then apparently do nothing, then navigate you to <code>a</code>.</li>
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<p dir="auto">(The <a href="https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/views/#built-in-panels" rel="nofollow ugc">Document List</a> paragraph in the User Manual doesn’t currently describe that keyboard navigation.  <s>That’s now on my todo list</s>.  <em>Update: it’s done; the paragraph had gotten too big, so it got split into the new <a href="https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/views/#document-list-panel-details" rel="nofollow ugc">Document List Panel Details</a> subsection, with more details on keyboard navigation.</em>)</p>
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