New document switching mode

[Jens Zurheide]

Hello everybody,

finally I had the time and muse to code on gideon. The attached patch is the 
provisional result. It is by no means finished because it is currently only 
available for the MDI mode (but who uses it nowadays when we have the IDEAl 
mode :-) ) but it is something to play with.

But to start from the beginning: I encounter the situation very often that I 
switch mainly between two different files. Usually these are the 
implementation file and the header file or documentation/code windows. 
Being a VS-user I am used to the Ctrl-Tab key shortcut and I was missing 
this one in gideon. So I started to implement it myself to avoid the "Hey, 
how about a patch?" question  :p 

What is working and what not and what is missing? The new switching mode is 
currently implemented and activated for MDI mode. It is not yet implemented 
for IDEAl. A configuration option in the user interface is missing but it 
should not be too hard to implement. Thus I decided to switch the feature 
on by setting the variable m_bSwitchByTime to true for the moment to allow 
a preview of the functionality. And last (but not least) I am pretty sure 
that activating a view by clicking onto a compiler output line is not 
handled correctly yet.

What do you think? Is this a feature that is worth spending some more time 
on it?

Comments are welcome.

Best regards,
Jens
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