On 09/06/2007 08:36:56 AM, John Gabriele wrote:
On 9/5/07, Nick Treleaven nick.treleaven@btinternet.com wrote:
Just to mention that sometime I/we will probably add incremental
find
backwards, which would be nice to do by adding shift to the
incremental
find binding.
Really looking forward to that feature! :) Maybe a checkbox connected with that search field widget (indicating search direction), where the key combo would check the checkbox before making the field active?
Maybe, not sure yet.
I can see how it's now getting into a gray area between using Shift-Alt vs. Ctrl-Alt, since even though you're still manipulating GUI elements, they're acting an awful lot like regular editing commands. I guess this is one of those cases where you need to think about what the user is using the command for, and choose the key combo based on that (keeping things consistent for the user), rather than strictly deciding key combos based on the editor feature implementation. So, that said, here's an updated and summed-up (and
At the moment I'm undecided about what to group under Alt-Shift and Ctrl-Alt. Personally I think I need to meditate on this for a while until everything feels right, so maybe decide after the 0.12 release.
- Shift-Alt-B -- select text between innermost matching brackets
(**who snuck this in here? ;)**). It does seem to go rather well with Shift-Alt-{W,L,P} though...
I'm thinking of adding something like 'select scope' which uses the current fold level. Or did you mean () brackets for selecting e.g. an argument list for a function?
- Alt-{PgUp,PgDn} -- scroll back and forward through editor tabs
(seems to follow nicely with the other Alt key commands, right?).
I don't like that. Users are used to Ctrl-{PgUp,PgDn} e.g. in browsers.
- Alt-{Home,End} -- Go to first tab (like Alt-1), and last tab
(Alt-0)? Just an idea here, but these two combos seem to just flow nicely from the rest of the Alt keys dealing with the GUI. Also, Enrico, you noted that someone once mentioned that numbers keys aren't always easy to hit on some keyboards, so maybe Alt-{Home,End} would be easier than Alt-{1,0} for some users?
I'm thinking of adding something like that, that's easier to type than the number keys.
Regards, Nick