Keyboard shortcut for favorites?

Hello Shorn,

Not very convenient way but: Alt 1| Alt A

Thank you.

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Anna Kozlova
JetBrains Inc.
http://www.intellij.com
"Develop with pleasure!"

I just recently upgraded from IDEA 5 to 6.

I don't mind the new combo box for the "View as" replacing the old
tabs, it seems like a more effecient and usuable layout *when I'm
using the mouse*.

But one of the major reasons I use IDEA is that I can do all normal
development tasks using the keyboard. I hate moving my hand over to
the mouse when I'm really going at it - it breaks my concentration and
slows me down.

A bit of context for what I need to do:
One of the things I used to do frequently was swap to a couple of
different local files using the favorites view. There always seems to
be a couple of files that aren't part of the project that I want to
either edit or view. E.g. my personal log4j config that I keep in a
separate place on the hard drive; and in the current project I'm
working on, they've set up a local persistence properties file for
testing purposes.
So what I would do was set up these files in the favorites. Then when
I needed to make a quick log config change or change the database I
point at and do a re-test I would do the following:

- press Alt-<something> (to bring up the favorites view)

- use the down arrow to select the file I wanted

- press enter (to open the file)

- then escape (to get rid of the favorites view).

This would being me into the file I wanted to edit, I'd make my
change, press Shift-F10 to re-test, then ctrl-F4 to close the external
file and BAM - I'm back doing whatever I was doing in the shortest
time possible.

Now, in IDEA 6, I don't seem to be able to do this any more. It's
very annoying. I've been looking through the keymap config, but I
can't seem to find a way to quickly get to the favorites so I can
select an external file.

Anyone got any advice on how I can regain the old functionality? I
don't mind if I don't use favorites, I just don't want to have to go
to the mouse all the time (and it'd be nice if I could leave my
project view alone so I can keep the context of the original file
visible).