← All ideas
  • Published 13 Oct 2022

Press TAB when renaming objects to rename next

Very simple suggestion.

When renaming objects in the outliner, pressing TAB would jump to the next object so you can rename stuff more efficiently.

Windows folders and files work this way.

100%

Development Status: Open

Upvote 3 Downvote 0
euclois
13 Oct 2022

3 Comments

fructdw

Go into keymap preferences, into outliner category:

Scroll down to bottom of category and press add new:

Fill up entries like this:

Hotkey: TAB

Identifier: outliner.select_walk

Walk Direction: Next

1
Wilphi

I guess that's not exactly what Euclois meant. That will just switch the next object in the outliner to the active one. But will not automatically be in the "change name mode", like it is when you are e.g. in the material panel where you can change one value hit "tab" and the next value will be marked so you can directly continue typing. One way could be to hit "tab" and after that "F2".

euclois Author

Well, Tab+F2 could be it, but why not just Tab? Much simpler and similar to many other applications starting with Windows itself.