Shortcuts for navigating forward and backward between recently focused documents
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a11y
Needs Design
Priority: Wishlist
- Dominant language
- Vala
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Description
## Problem
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.
## Proposal
Introduce a document focus history and add actions to go backwards and forwards in it linked to keyboard shortcuts e.g. `LeftArrow`and `RightArrow`
## Prior Art
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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