Navigating forward and back between documents is achieved by clicking the small arrows at the upper left of the editor window. It would be extremely helpful if forward/back document navigation could also be achieved using a mouse or trackpad.
I use Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad on iMac, and the trackpad on a MacBook. I find myself wishing I could use the swipe gesture on all of these devices to navigate, as is achieved in Safari and other document-centric applications for example.
Not a bad idea in itself, but I wonder if this is a private API thing. Note you can also use Cmd-[ and Cmd-] to navigate history as well. I find that shortcut quite easy to use since you don’t have to leave the home row to do it.
Incidentally you can set this up yourself if you use the free utility, BetterTouchTool. You can set up application specific gestures, so in this case you could bind the two-finger horizontal swipe gestures to Cmd-[ and ] for Scrivener only. This is exactly what I have to do to get swipe navigation in Firefox. BTT also gives you access to way more than what Apple gives you, too. Just the Magic Mouse probably has around 30 unique gestures available to it, though I find not all of them practical to use (four finger horizontal swipe? Every time I try it, the mouse goes flying across the desk!). Gestures aside, it gives you better control over the surface area. I found the default Apple multi-touch zone too wide. Things would “happen” if I so much as picked the thing up wrong. With BTT, you can manually tweak the zone in which the mouse ignores accidental contact. I brought the two sides in a bit and raised the “palm” area to around half the height of the mouse surface.
Hum, well that certainly worked well. What a useful utility, thanks so much for mentioning it. I’ve missed the Windows 7 window snap feature while using my Macs, and this utility has that as well, making it doubly useful for me. Thanks again!
You’re welcome! And yes, definitely agree with the Windows 7 style snapping, and I like how you can adjust it so that it remains useful on a large monitor. I’ve said for some time now: it’s the best thing Microsoft ever came up with (and so automatically I wonder who actually did). 