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Hi there,

First off, Code Compare is very impressive... reasonable licencing terms and reasonable cost for the 3-way merging upgrade. I'm quite pleased I found it.

My question regards the new TAB key behaviour of cycling focus. Unfortunately I can't seem
to turn it off. I'm sure it's a great feature for some (who work with a codebase that uses spaces) but it makes it hard to edit files. I need to either ctrl-C ctrl-V a tab character, or select some text first. The drastically different behaviour between having something selected and not seems... well drastic

I tried adding:
<Shortcut Name="IncreaseIndent" Group="TextEditor" FirstKey="Tab" />
<Shortcut Name="DecreaseIndent" Group="TextEditor" FirstKey="Shift+Tab" />
to a settings file (incidentally, it is impossible to remap this in the UI cuz the assign-key box doesn't seem to consume the keystrokes) but that only half solves things cuz you can only add/remove tabs at the beginning of the line.

Right now I'm using version 280 without this issue... but I'd rather be current. In short, my questions are:

a) Is there a way to disable the tab-cycling to get the old behaviour? Maybe with a shortcut that "inserts a tab"?
b) If yes great! If not will you add one in a future release?
c) If yes to 'willing to add'... if I purchase a pro version, can you send me the previous v4.0 release without the tab cycling?

Thanks!!

Hello. We are quite impressed by your investigations. We plan to release for two weeks the new Code Compare build where we will add the option to change behavior of the focus cycling.

Super. Thanks so much. You have another customer

New version works great btw. Thx.