[squeak-dev] Re: Fixing tab behaviour and browser hierarchy
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Chris Muller
ma.chris.m at gmail.com
Thu Nov 19 02:25:32 UTC 2015
Eliot, no worries, from my initial reply in this thread, I've agreed
with you that typing a Tab should insert a Tab character. That's why
I wanted to move the indent function "out of the way", by requiring a
modifier key. The problem with that is platform support. "Sensor
kbdTest" reveals no sensitivity to Shift+Tab in Linux nor to
Control+Tab in Windows. At the moment, yours is the only solution we
have.
I agree about typing tab characters, I even want to type a tab
character at the time which has now been filtered out. Indentation is
popping up and surprising me, its still too intrusive.
I want to find the best solution which balances our expectations of
when a tab character should be typed with keeping the Indentation
function as accessible as it can be. IMHO, we have not yet found that
best optimal balance yet.
> Look, my change makes typing a tab in the middle of a line do what one would
> expect, insert a tab. It /does not/ prevent anyone from defining Ctrl-tab
> or Shift-tab to indent our outdent if they want that. But _one should be
> able to easily type a tab in the middle of a line with a text editor_,
> period.
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