Re: Ideas for better text entry

[Jeff <jam zoidtechnologies com>]

warning, opinion alert! :)

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 12:19:27PM +0200, Krzysztof Foltman wrote:
> > Current text entry is really bad.
[..snipped..]
> IMHO, the text should be accepted on:
> 
> - ENTER key (Shift-ENTER for newline ?)

that seems fine to me.

> - changing focus (by TAB or mouse etc) and maybe switching application too

I do not know if you will receive notification from the WM that the
application has been switched with alt-tab, and IMHO, text should not be
entered if you switch out of the application temporarily-- what happens if I
am cutting and pasting something? I suppose that if other applications do
this, then I am fine with it.

> - clicking anywhere outside of the text view
> 

agreed.

> ESC could undo editing.
> 

also agreed.

> Krzysztof
> 

regards,
J
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