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"Tab" Key function

I being a sane person use the Tab key to open / close my inventory & whilst it can open it the new pre-release of 1.14 causes it to cycle through options, mainly highlighting the recipe book rather than closing it.

This is a major nuisance as its both much easier to use the Tab key & after playing with it as the inventory key for basically every game I've ever played its built into muscle memory.

Please add the additional control option of which key switches the highlighted box

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    i agree. there isnt even an option to rebind whatever tab is for instead of closing the inventory

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    Exactly what I was gonna post about.

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    Yes, this exact thing. It's almost game breaking for me as well.

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    I agree as well. This needs to be added.

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    I completely agree, seems like a major oversight on Mojang's part. Hopefully they'll fix this soon.

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    It's not that we even need Tab to cycle through the menu. That's why it no longer works, it cycles to the crafting recipes.

    What we need is an "Advanced bindings" menu. So we may toggle these kind of features.

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    I agree with the sentiment that this is definitely a major pain not being able to close the inventory screen with tab. Please add either an option in the accessibility section to disable tab cycling or have a key rebind for it. 

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    They added this with other accessibility features in some update. All of the other features can be toggled on and off in the accessibility settings, and I really hope they add this new tab function to the list of things that can be toggled on and off. (Until they fix this, I found a quick fix if you're interested. If you have a keyboard with a macro program, you can set your inventory key to some unused key, and set a macro on your tab key to press whatever unused key you bind your inventory to. For instance I have a Razer keyboard and have a macro using Razer Synapse to make my tab key press P. Which allows me to use tab to open and close my inventory. Really hope they fix this though.)