Ctrl-Up and Ctrl-Down cause topic to lose focus

[jeffbronks]

In HM4 it was easy to edit successive topics without using the mouse, by using the Ctrl-Up and Ctrl-Down keys. You can't do that in HM5, because hitting one of these key combinations causes the focus to jump from the topic editor to the table of contents pane. You then have to click in the topic editor to restore the focus before you can start using the keyboard to edit again.

[Martin Wynne]

In HM4 it was easy to edit successive topics without using the mouse, by using the Ctrl-Up and Ctrl-Down keys. You can't do that in HM5, because hitting one of these key combinations causes the focus to jump from the topic editor to the table of contents pane. You then have to click in the topic editor to restore the focus before you can start using the keyboard to edit again.

Hi Jeff,

You can press Ctrl+Tab to shift focus from the TOC back to the editor. (Tab by itself sometimes works, sometimes not.)

If you have a topic header, you then need Ctrl+Tab again to jump down to the topic body.

Martin.

[jeffbronks]

Good idea Martin. I'll file that under 'workarounds'.

[Tim Green]

Jeff,

Ctrl-Up and Ctrl-Down are still assigned to previous/next topic by default. If they are changing the focus to the Explorer then it's possible that the shortcuts have been changed, check your shortcuts settings in View > Program Options.

[jeffbronks]

Ctrl-Up and Ctrl-Down are still assigned to previous/next topic by default. If they are changing the focus to the Explorer then it's possible that the shortcuts have been changed, check your shortcuts settings in View > Program Options.

Sorry Tim, I've realised that my bug report was open to misinterpretation. What I meant was that Ctrl-Up and Ctrl-Down are correctly mapped to 'Previous Topic' and 'Next Topic', but they have the additional side-effect of switching the focus to the TOC. So I can switch topics just as I could in HM4 but, having done so, I then have to manually restore the focus to the edit pane before I can resume editing with the keyboard.

[Tim Green]

Hi Jeff,

Hmm.. this may be the way the ribbon component works, personally I've never noticed it as a problem because I don't expect the cursor to be in the topic when I switch to it. Probably because I use the mouse 98% of the time and that's how it works when I select a topic with the mouse...