So, I've been reconsidering GEdit as a quick development environment, but I was really missing a way to switch to the bottom pane and back (for using the embedded terminal).
I couldn't find an existing plugin to do this, so I took a look at Elia Sarti's TabSwitch plugin - that uses Ctrl+Tab to switch tabs - and edited it to switch back and forth between the bottom pane and the editor view and I must say that GEdit has a rather comfortable work flow now :)
