On Saturday 18 March 2000 Paula Ford wrote:
> I may be wrong, but I don't think ESC is the "official" way of backing
> out of the filter. It's ctrl=. So, perhaps this slipped by the
> developers.
Christopher has already pointed this out, but I too definitely remember
Stefan's post a while back which said Escape was the way to do this.
(I see Ctrl+= also works though.)
> I don't know what the windows rules are, but I like being able to escape
> out of sub-windows and the such. The problem here might be thought of
> the other way around. ESC should not be used to back out of the filter.
Well, the official rules are that Escape is equivalent to Cancel.
(Cancel is somtimes, but not always the same as Close.) Taking a
slightly more abstract view, what it does is back you out of a mode.
(The most obvious example of a mode being that due to a modal dialog.)
Now clearly neither the filter or the search/address book windows are
modal dialogs. In a very strict sense they're not even modes. But I'm
more comfortable with the idea of the filter being sort of like a mode
than the whole search window, since it's a much smaller conceptual
unit. Ideally you should be able to back out of a mode without doing
any damage, but the search window may contain results that took a
while to compile, and losing them so easily is a real pain sometimes.
Perhaps a confirmation if you try to Escape out of a non-empty search
window would be good, but then you still need to address the issue of
cancelling a drill-down filter.
I realise the application of modality to this situation is very open
to interpretation and user preference. I just think my interpretation
is right ;-)
John
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