On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, James K. Lowden wrote: > On 10 Feb 2003 16:21:03 -0600, Lars Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Alan Horkan wrote: >> > >> > If you use TAB to move between fields then you cannot put tabs in your >> > text boxes. >> >> True, unless we add some escape sequence. But how often do you need to >> put a tab in a text box? They don't really have a well-defined meaning >> there. Tab is so commonly known as 'move to next input' that I think we >> can make that the general behaviour. > > You can decide for yourself if it's a feature or not, but I've used > applications that use TAB to 'move to next input' and ^I to insert a tab.
That sounds like a good compromise (if ^I doesn't register as a tab). > It's a little hard to remember sometimes that TAB leaves the textbox, but > not nearly so annoying as the alternative: *failing* to leave the textbox > and accidentally altering its text. Exactly. > Tabs are somewhat useful in textboxes whose contents are somewhat > structured. Somewhat. Such structure really should be done with something slightly spreadsheet-like. -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| H�rdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I |---------------------------- will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket? _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
