Rstudio: Scrolling tabs (don't focus, just scroll)

[StefanBrand]

Hi everybody, 🙂

I often get stuck in my workflow because scrolling the tabs actually focuses the neighbouring tab. This is annoying when there are many dataset View()s that take a long time to load. In Firefox, for example, scrolling scrolls the tabs and only focuses when I _click_ on one of them.

Maybe there is already a switch somewhere that lets me alter this behaviour? If not, what are the chances that tabs scrolling is implemented like in Firefox?

Best, Stefan

PS.: I see that the scrolling featuree was discussed here in the old support forum.

[jmcphers]

No, there's not currently a switch that does this. Appreciate the suggestion!

[akiledal]

This would be really nice! Maybe it should be a separate issue, but horizontal scrolling would be really nice, especially on a touchpad, too.

[johnhowa]

Probably related, so I'll leave it here; I've seen this feature request before.

There should be way to turn off the behavior of mouse scrolling while hovering over tabs in the Source pane. While using the Magic Mouse, it scrolls so quickly that misclicking and losing your place becomes commonplace.

Edit: Here's a better report on the problem: https://community.rstudio.com/t/mac-magic-mouse-undesired-switching-through-tabs/61461