Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 2:01 pm Post subject: arrow key question
When I am in the bottom sentence of a file and hit the down button in Camino or TextEdit, the cursor jumps to the end of the line.
In NeoOffice, it doesn't move the cursor.
Is this intentional, or maybe something that could be fixed?
I recall seeing some discussion about arrow keys, but I can't remember what that was about exactly..
Best wishes,
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Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 2:09 pm Post subject: Re: arrow key question
pluby wrote:
I believe that this is a Camino and Firefox feature as the down arrow does not do that behavior in Safari or TextEdit.
OK. I now see what you are talking about in TextEdit and that is custom to TextEdit.
I think that you are assuming that the down arrow has a standard "go to to the end of the line" Cocoa key binding. However, there is no default Cocoa key binding attached to that key. The default Cocoa key binding for the "go to to the end of the line" action is Ctrl-End.
If I file this as a feature request, would it stand a chance?
I tend to do a lot of typing at the end of a file. I go back and change a few letter and then continue typing. Not having to use both hands to make this move would speed things up.
Considering this behaviour also works on many PC apps, I'd like to have it as standard .
Of course, if this is very hard to implement, I will understand.
Best wishes,
Oscar _________________ "What do you think of Western Civilization?"
"I think it would be a good idea!"
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
If I file this as a feature request, would it stand a chance?
If you mean filing the request against NeoOffice, then no it does not stand a chance. The reason is that implementing such behavior would require modifying OpenOffice.org Writer and that is a big expansion in our scope. The NeoOffice native code that we have does not know anything about the contents of your document and merely forwards key and mouse events and Cocoa key bindings actions onto the OpenOffice.org application code. It is in the application code (and Writer, Calc, and Impress each have their own huge number of application code files) that interpret each key and mouse event into application functionality.
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