# Navigating the editor tabs

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/navigating-the-editor-tabs/5077>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [20 November 2018 17:41 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/navigating-the-editor-tabs/5077 "2018-11-20T17:41:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Andrei](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/andrei/32/10446_2.png) [@Andrei](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Andrei)\
**Post date:** [20 November 2018 17:41 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/navigating-the-editor-tabs/5077/1 "2018-11-20T17:41:33Z")

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Some of my projects have a large number of tabs each (sometimes 50+). This makes the horizontal scrolling of the tab something slow. In order to mitigate I reprogrammed the keyboard shortcuts using the left and right arrows to move to the next tab left and right. This is a way better than using the mouse to scroll. I wish I could use the up arrow key to quick jump to the first tab (left-most) and the down arrow key to quick jump to the last tab (right-most). Does anyone has an idea if this is possible at all ? Perhaps using some API resource or whatever ? I guess it should not be impossible as all that it is needed to move to another flow is passing a new url to the current browser tab, right ?

 ![index](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/2X/8/8ff9d9d3722a2baacaf68d128deb75988a63c88b.gif)

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**Author:** ![Colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/colin/32/17040_2.png) [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [20 November 2018 20:20 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/navigating-the-editor-tabs/5077/2 "2018-11-20T20:20:14Z")

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> [@Andrei](#):
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> I reprogrammed the keyboard shortcuts using the left and right arrows to move to the next tab left and right

What have you programmed them to in order to achieve that?

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**Author:** ![Andrei](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/andrei/32/10446_2.png) [@Andrei](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Andrei)\
**Post date:** [20 November 2018 20:31 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/navigating-the-editor-tabs/5077/3 "2018-11-20T20:31:54Z")

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Hi Colin,

When you select Keyboard Shortcuts in the menu you will presented with the setting screen.

By clicking in a row will allow you to config the key. Screenshot below show the config for the right arrow.

 ![r-01](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/2X/1/1eb3820ca831788e11826d89b443d6be60771c7d.png)

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**Author:** ![Colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/colin/32/17040_2.png) [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [20 November 2018 20:50 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/navigating-the-editor-tabs/5077/4 "2018-11-20T20:50:31Z")

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> [@Andrei](#):
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> When you select Keyboard Shortcuts in the menu you will presented with the setting screen.

Oh yes, sorry, I thought you were talking about system shortcuts.

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**Author:** ![Andrei](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/andrei/32/10446_2.png) [@Andrei](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Andrei)\
**Post date:** [23 November 2018 15:08 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/navigating-the-editor-tabs/5077/5 "2018-11-23T15:08:56Z")

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Here is a workaround to quickly navigate from the right-most to the left-most tab (and vice versa). I just created a dummy tab named "First" and another one named "Last" each one positioned in its corner in the scrolling bar. I then type `control f` to open the search dialog pane and type First or Last depending on what I want.