Am Dienstag, 3. Juli 2012, 19:15:57 schrieben Sie: > At 10:52 3-7-2012 +0200, you wrote: > > I strongly vote for > >the input box being visible only if it is explicitely requested from the > >menu or the command line. > > Well, you are out-voted on that. But the behavior could be made > subject to a persistent option, e.g. -autoBox true|false.
Then I strongly vote for -autoBox true|false instead ;) Especially since the input box obviously steals the focus (without coming into foreground, at least with my window manager settings) so that the second letter I type isn't subject to evaluation as a shortcut for an ics command. E.g. I frequently type "q" for resign (too often I have to) and then "r" for rematch. Now I always wonder why there is no reaction by my opponent. But of course my "r" just sits in the input box doing nothing. Some additional thoughts: I never particularly liked the input box. In order for it to be useful it had better be part of a window which also displays the stuff coming from ics. But then there is a perfect way to achieve that without the input box and which I use all the time: rlwrap. It lets you use the readline library, e.g. it takes care of command line history in a much better way than the input box. Somehow it's not the unix philosophy to reinvent the wheel. I admit that the input box may have been around before rlwrap but rlwrap is a much cleaner and portable alternative. So there is no reason to now force the input box on everybody. Maybe it is needed for winboard but for xboard (which I use) it is definitely obsolete. > >And what about the "."? > > "." was not a suitable character for that anymore, as it is quite common > one has to send a line to the ICS that starts with ".". So this function > was migrated to <Tab>. (Or was it <Enter>? Anyway, one works on > WinBoard, the other on XBoard.) Okay it's unfortunately <Enter> instead of <Tab> on xboard. Is there any way to swap it? Holding the mouse with my right hand <Tab> is more conveniently typed with the left. _______________________________________________ Bug-XBoard mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-xboard
