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Breaking the 0-9A-Z JUMP key barrier   [ZEP]

By: Slobodan Vujnovic   Homepage   France  
Date: Jun 23,2004 at 08:39
In Response to: Keep text pure (Laurent Duchastel)

> As far as quick navigation is concerned, I actually *LIKE* the actual
> 0-9A-Z limitation ! I use #, _, ! and others characters to AVOID jumping
> to an item and executing it by mistake. I would prefer status quo on this
> one.

I don't understand this: what risk is there for making # or ! a JUMP key?

Currently, how do you access/avoid # items? I suppose just like me: you
navigate to them manually with arrow keys and then make sure you don't hit
Enter on it. If # becomes a JUMP key, you have the option to continue
navigating manually and NEVER hit the # key, just the 0-9A-Z keys -- that's what you seem to be implying. So, you risk nothing; just ignore them.

However, others would use # or ! to jump to such items. I think you would also
discover how useful this could be for locating all # items in a database.

Of course, jumping is not executing, so there will still be the need to hit
Enter to make some damage, just like today.

So, I don't see any risk in enabling ALL possible JUMP keys. It's Enter that
is risky, not JUMP keys, IMO. Again, just stick to the 0-9A-Z habit.

Note that every single GUI app allows this type of navigation, as well as DW/FW
in ZTree. It is only F9 that (for XTree legacy reasons?) does not support this.
I find this very limiting and frustrating, since this technique works so well
in FW/DW and I do name files with ! a lot and can locate them fast. Not so with
my F9 items...

Since I spend a lot of time in F9, this really slows me down.

One subtle difference between dirs/files and F9 items: 99% of dir/file names
on your disks and shares are outside your control, so you can't really come up
with any nomenclature, except maybe for photos, your own Office documents, or
source files. With F9 items, you have total naming freedom, allowing more
interesting organizational/searching possibilities -- yet, the number of JUMP
keys is way below that available for files/dirs...

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