Notes on selection behaviour - l10nelw/select-tabs GitHub Wiki

Hopefully these are sensible and intuitive enough that you don't really have to think about them in regular usage.

• Generated selections usually exclude pinned tabs, except:

  • when the target is a pinned tab
  • with a Parent-seeking command
  • with a single-additive command (Add..., Trail...)
  • with the Invert command, when the original selection included a pinned tab

• Only Trail... and Switch/Cycle... commands deliberately switch tabs; for all others, any tab switch is incidental. Within a generated selection, the tab that becomes active is, in order of priority:

  • The parent tab if using a Parent-seeking command
  • The currently active tab (The ideal; Select Tabs will prefer not to switch tabs)
  • The target tab
  • The leftmost selected tab