This is indeed, the poorest design decision I saw from Apple.

But, of course, you can set something more sensible (I did) for
switching between spaces, like Apple+Ctrl or so. If you do not know
how to do it (this is another poor design decision), you can see it
here:
http://www.tudorgirba.com/blog/in-between-spaces

Cheers,
Doru


On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Igor Stasenko <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12 March 2012 06:16, Tudor Girba <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Ok, I took a look.
>>
>> Please do not integrate this as it is. Here are my reasons:
>> - TextMorphs are supposed to be used for other things than source code, and 
>> for non-experienced-smalltalk-programmers, this would be quite alien.
>> - You already have a reasonably similar functionality with Ctrl pressed. 
>> This functionality is the same as in other editors on your machine, which 
>> brings familiarity. It would be better to have your functionality added to 
>> the Ctrl one.
>
> Yeah, except that i cannot use it, because Apple , on Lion thinks that
> it is better to use Ctrl-left/ctrl-right for switching between "full
> screen apps", whatever it means..
> It looks that Apple doesn't fears about alienating text-editor users
> by changing key bindings.
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Doru
>>
>>
>> On 12 Mar 2012, at 03:58, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>>
>>> On 12 March 2012 03:50, Igor Stasenko <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> sorry for not explaining the feature properly..
>>>>
>>>> I just wanna ask, what do you think, it we're going to integrate that:
>>>>  a) should it be optional or we can use it by default?
>>>>  b) if it is optional, what is default setting on/off?
>>>>
>>>> I vote for (a).. Because:
>>> ^^^
>>> a) as not-optional :)
>>>
>>>> What i finding hard is imagining situation, where old behavior will be
>>>> less time consuming/more appropriate.
>>>> Can anyone can come up with cons arguments?
>>>>
>>>> While is important to fully control each whitespace character(s)
>>>> separately, when you editing/typing text (as in languages like Python
>>>> they even make it part of syntax... (what a stupid idea.. can't resist
>>>> sorry)), for navigating the text an importance of stepping over every
>>>> whitespace character seems to be leaning to zero.. (well, at least in
>>>> my eyes).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Igor Stasenko.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Best regards,
>>> Igor Stasenko.
>>>
>>
>> --
>> www.tudorgirba.com
>>
>> "Quality cannot be an afterthought."
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko.
>



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