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Shortcuts for navigating forward and backward between recently focused documents #1017

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It is quite common when developing to have lots of tabs open but mainly jump backwards between two or three documents. It would be useful to be able to do this quickly with keyboard shortcuts (and/or navigation buttons à la Files) rather than hunting for the desired tab or sidebar entry.

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Introduce a document focus history and add actions to go backwards and forwards in it linked to keyboard shortcuts e.g. <Alt>LeftArrowand <Alt>RightArrow

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Geany has buttons to jump forward and backward between locations, although they do not always work as expected. This proposal would only change the focused document.

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