Using cmd-shift-left/right arrows in Terminal

Hi,

Is there a way to revert to Leopard's shortcuts for switching tabs in Terminal?

I'm working on a daily basis with both Leopard and Snow Leopard and the fact that I have to use cmd-shift-left/right in the former (which is coherent with Safari) and cmd-left/right in the latter (which is coherent with I wonder what?) is extremely annoying.

I tried using System Preferences Keyboard pane to assign the shortcut to no avail, but it doesn't seem to work at all.

BTW, I really don't understand why Apple changed this shortcut. As with any application, changing shortcuts is not really considerate for end users ;P

TIA

MacBookPro5,1, Quad G5, Mini Core2, PBook G4 17HD, Dual G4 500 AGP, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Jan 7, 2010 6:23 PM

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Jan 7, 2010 6:38 PM in response to thibaut

I don't know why you have command+left or right arrow for tab switching. i have command+shift +left or right arrow. running 10.6.2 here. also, the other shortcuts for this that show up in the window menu are command+} and command+{. those can be also be changed in keyboard system preferences. that should have worked for you. i can do it without problems. but I suggest you reset your terminal preference file. that should restore teh default shortcuts. quit terminal and delete the file ~/library/preferences/com.apple.terminal.plist. start terminal and the shortcuts should be commandshiftarrows.

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