Hi KRM I'm afraid that decent keyboard support is still on the todo list for TiddlyWiki5 (http://tiddlywiki.com/#KeyboardShortcuts). It's an important goal, though. I've cleaned up a couple of related issues into a single ticket:
https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/980 Best wishes Jeremy On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 3:07 PM, KRM <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] -- 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.
