Re: TAB should move from field to field

2011-04-25 Thread Stefan Monnier
If I could add a rider request to this, it would be great to have a single key command to copy the field contents to the kill ring (the way 'M' does now for the primary mail address). I often need to copy people's details to other places, and every time I do I wish I had this… I'd personally

Re: TAB should move from field to field

2011-04-25 Thread Roland Winkler
On Mon Apr 25 2011 Stefan Monnier wrote: I'd personally even prefer if fields work as sexp, so I can just use M-C-SPC to mark a few fields and then M-w to copy them. I.e. hooking into forward-sexp-function would suit my fingers. Interesting idea - though admittedly I don't know yet how this

Re: TAB should move from field to field

2011-04-25 Thread Ted Zlatanov
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:19:02 -0500 Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org wrote: RW On Mon Apr 25 2011 Stefan Monnier wrote: I'd personally even prefer if fields work as sexp, so I can just use M-C-SPC to mark a few fields and then M-w to copy them. I.e. hooking into forward-sexp-function would suit

Re: TAB should move from field to field

2011-04-24 Thread Leo
On 2011-04-24 01:48 +0800, Roland Winkler wrote: On Sat Apr 23 2011 Leo wrote: I have one suggestion. I think making TAB move from field to field is useful. For example, in the following record, assume point at `R'ichard, TAB could move from R - F - m - n - next record Sounds like a good

Re: TAB should move from field to field

2011-04-24 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
On Sun, Apr 24 2011, Roland Winkler wrote: On Sun Apr 24 2011 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: Seems like preserving line breaks in multi-line fields (and removing any left-hand whitespace) would be all the formatting you'd need Well, I guess that extracting the field from the database with just

Re: TAB should move from field to field

2011-04-24 Thread Ted Zlatanov
On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 04:17:14 +0800 Leo sdl@gmail.com wrote: L I have one suggestion. I think making TAB move from field to field is L useful. For example, in the following record, assume point at `R'ichard, L TAB could move from R - F - m - n - next record L Richard Stallman - FSF L

Re: TAB should move from field to field

2011-04-24 Thread Roland Winkler
On Sun Apr 24 2011 Ted Zlatanov wrote: I'd use `p' and `n' to move between records and TAB only between fields of a record. That way when you lean on TAB you don't get surprised, and if you're on the last field you can go to the first one in a circular way. To the best of my knowledge, none

Re: TAB should move from field to field

2011-04-23 Thread Roland Winkler
On Sat Apr 23 2011 Leo wrote: I have one suggestion. I think making TAB move from field to field is useful. For example, in the following record, assume point at `R'ichard, TAB could move from R - F - m - n - next record Sounds like a good idea. Yet all fields except for the name field are

Re: TAB should move from field to field

2011-04-23 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
On Sun, Apr 24 2011, Roland Winkler wrote: On Sat Apr 23 2011 Leo wrote: I have one suggestion. I think making TAB move from field to field is useful. For example, in the following record, assume point at `R'ichard, TAB could move from R - F - m - n - next record Sounds like a good idea.

Re: TAB should move from field to field

2011-04-23 Thread Roland Winkler
On Sun Apr 24 2011 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: If I could add a rider request to this, it would be great to have a single key command to copy the field contents to the kill ring (the way 'M' does now for the primary mail address). I often need to copy people's details to other places, and every

Re: TAB should move from field to field

2011-04-23 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
On Sun, Apr 24 2011, Roland Winkler wrote: On Sun Apr 24 2011 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: If I could add a rider request to this, it would be great to have a single key command to copy the field contents to the kill ring (the way 'M' does now for the primary mail address). I often need to copy

Re: TAB should move from field to field

2011-04-23 Thread Roland Winkler
On Sun Apr 24 2011 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: Seems like preserving line breaks in multi-line fields (and removing any left-hand whitespace) would be all the formatting you'd need Well, I guess that extracting the field from the database with just some base formatting should be a yet shorter way

TAB should move from field to field

2011-04-22 Thread Leo
Hello, I have one suggestion. I think making TAB move from field to field is useful. For example, in the following record, assume point at `R'ichard, TAB could move from R - F - m - n - next record Richard Stallman - FSF mail: r...@gnu.org notes: The best hacker,