Consistancy of list cycling keys... by Walter Rassbach

Consistancy of list cycling keys [Q]

By: Walter Rassbach
Date: Feb 14,2006 at 06:22
In Response to: Consistancy of list cycling keys (Ben Kent)

> Agree, other than the key ends up different to spell search and other
> places that cycle through a list.

> Proposed history: Shift-Up/Down
> Active Spell search: Shift-2 (")
> Propmted Spell search: PgUp/PgDn
> Various palces: [Shift/Ctrl-]Tab

> I would prefer a reduction of the numbers of ways to cycle through
> matches, wherever posible, so that only one or two ways need to be
> remembered, this would make ZTree easer for new users to learn and make
> the interface more intuitive.

> I think that [Shift-]Tab should be used wherever posible, then PgUp/PgDn
> or Shift-PgUp/PgDn, and if possible Shift-PgUp/PgDn should allways work,
> then you could just use Shift-PgUp/PgDn everywhere.

> Ben

I think that the keys do need to be kept uniform across all prompts. For prompts that do have a TAB option/cycle, shift-TAB is the cycle reverse, so I don't think that we can use shift-TAB here as well.

I was thinking of the shift-Up/Down usage to cycle through matches along the lines of the shift- commands keys in F7-autoview where there is also a keystroke change. For consistency, I would continue the use of those keys within the history window. For prompted spell searching in history, I would suggest shift-PgUp/PgDn on a corellation basis and because PgUp/PgDn are already valid keys in history lists.

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