Feature request: previous master and next master shortcuts

Glyphs
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There are no shortcuts for masters beyond the ninth master in a font. This can make QA across lots of masters tedious as changing masters requires using a mouse. It would be helpful to be able to move through masters with previous master and next master keyboard shortcuts. opt+home and opt+end would probably work well.

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More than nine masters is a very rare case. So don’t think I will implement that. But you can add it yourself.
Copy the following lines in a python file each.

#MenuTitle: Next master
# encoding: utf-8
Font.parent.windowController().setMasterIndex_(Font.parent.windowController().masterIndex() + 1)

#MenuTitle: Previous master
# encoding: utf-8
Font.parent.windowController().setMasterIndex_(Font.parent.windowController().masterIndex() - 1)

The y0u assign shortcuts in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts

I added the masterIndex to the wrapper, so with the next update, you may change the files to this:

#MenuTitle: Next master
# encoding: utf-8
Font.masterIndex += 1

#MenuTitle: Previous master
# encoding: utf-8
Font.masterIndex -= 1
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Thanks, Georg. These scripts work fine.