On Dec 27, 2008, at 6:37 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea wrote:

> Hi devs,
>
> We have to decide upon the proper behavior of the Tab key in the new
> WYSIWYG editor. Open Office has the following behavior:
>
> A) If the caret is inside a table cell then jump to the next one (or
> previous one with Shift).
>
> B) If the caret is at the beginning of a list item then indent that  
> item
> (or outdent with Shift). By indent I mean make it a subitem of the
> previous list item.
>
> C) Otherwise insert a Tab. The Tab doesn't always have the same width;
> it depends on the top ruler and on the caret position. Shift+Tab is  
> ignored.
>
> I'm +1 for A) and B)

+1 for A) and B)

> Regarding C), it's difficult to have the same behavior. What we can  
> do is:
>
> C1) Insert spaces (say 4); we would have to use non-breaking spaces of
> course.
>
> C2) Insert just one (breaking) space to discourage users from using  
> the
> tab key to layout text.

C3) Indent the whole paragraph

I don't know what I prefer... +0 for C1 and +0 for C3 I'd say but I  
can be swayed.

Thanks
-Vincent

>
>
> I'm +0 for C1) and +0.5 for C2).
>
> I need your vote asap.
>
> Thanks,
> Marius
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