[squeak-dev] Re: Fixing tab behaviour and browser hierarchy appearance

Ken G. Brown kbrown at mac.com
Thu Nov 19 22:00:47 UTC 2015


> On Nov 19, 2015, at 09:13, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 1:42 AM, marcel.taeumel <Marcel.Taeumel at hpi.de> wrote:
>> I like using TAB or SHIFT+TAB for indent resp. outdent. However, we have to
>> get the selection right. We have to watch for the current context
>> (surrounding whitespaces, beginning of the line etc.).
> 
> After sleeping on it, I think Levente has the best idea -- that's
> really what its about, indenting _multiple_ lines, otherwise, for
> single line I can always just use Tab character.  Eliot said he was
> editing case statements, so that would work for that too.
> 
>> If we cannot solve it, we should go back to CMD+SHIFT+L/R.
> 
> I hope we won't need to, but if we did I would prefer to pick
> different keys because L and R are very useful for global keys
> (especially R).
> 
>> P.S.: Really, ALT+TAB or CMD+TAB or CTRL+TAB is meant to be used for
>> application/window cycling ... don't override this... :)
> 
> OS's hook Alt+Tab, not Control+Tab, right?  Apps like Google Chrome
> hooks Control+Tab.  Squeak is just another app that should be able to
> hook Control+Tab too..
> 

How about using what the popular Mac editor, BBEdit uses, cmd-[ for move left and cmd-] for move right. 
Works the same for single and multiple lines.

Ken G. Brown



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