From: Callum Gibson (callum.gibson_at_db.com)
Date: Fri Oct 12 2001 - 00:25:21 BST
william.dowling_at_isinet.com writes: }Of the various ideas floated, this seems most natural to me. One way }to indicate which panel has focus as you are tabbing through would be }to redraw the labels from } start next step etc }to } s(t)art (n)ext (s)tep etc My only concern with this approach, from an implementation point of view, is that it's a lot of work to create a new text region on the screen and to have the concept of changing focus between those regions (given that we're not dealing with Xaw or Motif here) compared with something which uses the existing text area and uses some way to distinguish whether the input is a command or a variable reference. I've mentioned a couple of ways to do this. At the moment the % prefix indicates a command, but Rod pointed out that changing between '%n ' and '%s ' was a little cumbersome, and still not single keystroke. So from a pragmatic point of view, how about a key to toggle between 'command' mode and 'input mode' (sort of like vi)? Or you could even use a '%%' command to go to command mode, to be semi-consistent with existing usage. Of course, if someone wants to go the whole hog and implement a new text area, which will admittedly allow easier switching between entering text or commands, don't let me stop you. I think we're in agreement that it is desirable functionality at least. Callum
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