OTOH, in just about every word processor or text editor I've used,
enter produces a return, so Revs behaviour is not without precedent.
The question is whether Rev fields should behave like a spreadsheet
or a word processor - of course, the answer depends on context, so I
guess RunRev went with the WP option as default, but of course we can
override it...
Mark
On 26 Mar 2006, at 03:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Richard,
I was not so much concerned with Return. It works as I'd expect.
But it has always seemed strange that Enter should also produce a
return in Rev.
I go back before the Mac/Windows wars. The spreadsheets of the late
70s, early 80s, and since use the following convention:
TAB = close the current cell and open the one to the immediate right
RETURN = close the current cell and open the one immediately below
ENTER = close the current cell
The Return is of typewriter lineage (especially the electric
typewriters of the 60s - before that the carriage return was done
manually). Return is also a lower ASCII character for use with
teletype machines.
Enter is from adding machines - where it initiates calculations
from numbers entered.
There is definitely a difference between Return and Enter! Enter
should not produce a carriage return. But, as you say, three lines
of code set the world right. Mark Smith's suggestion fixed all of
the problems I was having.
Paul Looney
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: How to use Revolution <[email protected]>
Sent: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 09:21:45 -0800
Subject: Re: Enter vs Return
Paul wrote:
> Everyone,
> Isn't the current behavior of Enter (doing a return) wrong?
> If I am the only one who thinks so, I'll work around it with
Mark's > cure. Otherwise I'll bugzilla it (thought it had been
entered in > Bugzilla already).
I don't believe the behavior's changed, and it's easy enough to
have any other behavior you want.
But unfortunately if you want to ever support the other 90+% who
use Windows, you will only confuse them if you have different
behaviors for Enter and Return:
It seems everyone who designs PC keyboards are all under 25 years
of age, having never seen nor heard of a typewriter, which would
explain why they exhibit no understanding of the origin of the
Return key on their keyboards:
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ide.revolution.user/73566/
match=type
writer>
PS: Oddly enough, while I can find that post easily on GMane and
Nabble, searching for "typewriter" in the Rev list archives comes
up empty.
Not to RunRev: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE add your own search on your
archives. Outside services like Google have no obligation to index
all of your content, and many searches with it produce incomplete
results.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
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