ALT- <- and ALT -> for navigation in MacOS desktop not working

Wayne_Smith · February 3, 2017, 9:27pm

Confused Here is image of what I see in the menu.

Erica · February 3, 2017, 9:31pm

Yeah, I tried clicking on the “Navigate back” and “Navigate forward” buttons, and they do work.

Wayne_Smith · February 5, 2017, 8:31am

I have found that I can only use the “Navigate” command if the document is not focussed for editing. So either I have to click on the side pane, or use something like CMD-O ESC to lose the focus. Would be nice if there was way to lose the extra keystrokes.

Erica · February 5, 2017, 6:52pm

In that case you can just click on the backward/forward buttons on the top left corner, that sounds faster.

Wayne_Smith · February 5, 2017, 7:13pm

I do, but ideally one should be able work using only keyboard, without the mouse, as that is oftentimes much faster. Would like to see Dynalist as super-efficient solution!

Wayne_Smith · February 25, 2017, 10:53am

This is related to the need expressed in Recent file in File Finder as well. Would like to rapidly navigate between recent files using keyboard only, something like CMD-TAB to move around stack of recently visited items.

Frank · June 26, 2017, 5:59pm

Neither Ctrl+Left/Right nor Alt+Left/Right work for me and I would love to see this implemented, as I use keyboard shortcuts a lot.

Erica · June 27, 2017, 7:46pm

Yes, I definitely agree. The options in the “View” menu does work, but for some reason the macOS system has intercepted the Ctrl+Left/Right shortcut (I think to switch workspaces?). We have to look into how to bypass that or switch to another shortcut if nothing works out.

Frank · June 30, 2017, 4:08pm

It would be great if we could customize shortcuts in a future version of Dynalist!

Erica · August 7, 2017, 9:56pm

As a Pro user you can already do that for most shortcuts in Dynalist! It’s available under settings - keymap. Unfortunately this shortcut is more of a system shortcut and we don’t provide customization for it yet.

Erica · December 8, 2017, 8:05pm

Hi @Wayne_Smith, sorry for digging this up ! We’re cleaning up the bugs and would like to know if the bug is still happening to you? If not we’ll close this bug

Wayne_Smith · December 9, 2017, 11:12am

Hi Erica,

I downloaded the latest desktop app to be sure, but the alt arrows do nothing

Erica · December 15, 2017, 7:47pm

Added this to our new tracking system, hopefully we’ll get to it soon!

Erica · June 3, 2018, 2:42pm

Hi @Wayne_Smith,

Sorry for the super late update. Recently (back around beginning of April), we changed the go back/forward shortcuts on the desktop app to be the consistent with the browsers.

Now you can use Cmd+Left/Right to go back and forward, when there’s nothing focused. If you’re focusing on something, you can now use the Esc to remove the focus.

I hope that helps! If you could kindly confirm that, I’ll mark this bug as fixed.

Wayne_Smith · June 4, 2018, 9:07am

Thanks @Erica works for me!!

Erica · June 4, 2018, 3:29pm

Thanks for confirming!

Sebastien_Dubois · August 5, 2018, 2:10pm

Thanks @Erica, I thought I was going crazy until I found this thread. It is quite annoying that one has to first hit Escape for Cmd-Left/Right to work. Is there any chance to make it work all the time, either viewing or editing? Should a new thread be opened? Thank you

Erica · August 10, 2018, 5:49pm

I don’t think so, unfortunately, as Cmd-Left/Right is for manipulating the text… don’t really want to override that

Sebastien_Dubois · August 10, 2018, 7:37pm

Ok, that’s how it is then thanks for the reply.

Sven_Bendel1 · December 8, 2019, 7:03pm

EDIT: deleted my remark, it was bogus, sorry.