I've recently been attempting to use TW5 instead of TWC and have been having a workflow problem related to using the keyboard.
I'm used to creating a tiddler using nothing but the keyboard. Type the title, tab, type the text, tab, type the tags and I'm finished: I only stray to the mouse at the very beginning and very end of the process. With TW5 there doesn't seem to be much concern about the focus. For example, when I create a new tiddler, my mouse focus is off in the sidebar -- there is no realistic way to tab over to the tiddler I presumably want to edit as my immediately following action. Once I'm editing the tiddler tabbing from the title takes me to the tag field, which is fine, but the tab interface involves a pop-up with, as far as I can tell, no keyboard mechanism to cancel or complete it...Enter selects the currently selected tag, and tab just traverses the list, while Esc attempts to discard the entire new tiddler. As far as tag selection goes, once that pop-up appears there is no partial matching from the keyboard, mouse interaction becomes all but mandatory. I try to avoid using the mouse as much as possible, both because the keyboard is incalculably faster and because I have repetitive stress issues with my pointing device. TWC didn't interrupt my keyboarding any more than most modern desktop UIs do, but TW5 seems to be very keyboard-unfriendly. Is there some conscious UI design concept behind this? Is there some way to adjust focus, tabbing, and other UI behavior with a TW5 module or is (as I would assume) that level of behavior baked into the core? Does anyone else have these same issues? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
