[Design] next week/previous week keybindings

[Davor Cubranic]

On platforms I normally use, Linux and Windows, control-arrows advance the 
cursor by words in any text entry field. (Outside text widgets it might 
vary from application to application.) Pressing shift at the same time 
expands the selection by words. So yes, it could be a context issue, but 
from what I know, once it's declared as a menu shortcut by WX, there is no 
overriding it in individual widgets, so there can't be any distinguishing 
of context -- if it's a menu shortcut, it cannot be anything else in the 
app.

Personally, I hardly ever use the shift combination (that's why it never 
even occurred to me that it might be a problem when Jeffrey suggested it 
instead of ctrl-arrow, which I think I originally reported as bug 7463), 
but it definitely has become ingrained as part of the standard editing 
palette and if something else happens instead, it feels pretty jarring. 
FWIW, alt-cursor seems fine - I'm already used to its being used for 
navigating back and forth in the browser history in Firefox and editor 
history in Eclipse. Not quite the same thing as navigating the calendar, 
but not too alien either. I'm not sure whether you care about keeping 
keyboard shortcuts consistent between Chandler and Cosmo though, as 
alt-cursor almost certainly wouldn't work there.

Davor

P.S. Nice adaptation there Jeffrey! Is this the kind of brain wave one can 
only get at the end of a long day? :-)


On Wed, 23 May 2007, Mimi Yin wrote:

> Um, do I need to reply in rhyme as well?
>
> Could this be framed as a context issue?
> What does Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-Left Arrow/Right Arrow do?
> When editing a text field versus Not editing a text field?
>
> How much do we care about people using Chandler on multiple platforms?
> What does Outlook do?
>
> Mimi
>
> On May 22, 2007, at 6:04 PM, Jeffrey Harris wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks,
>> 
>> We've fiddled with the keybindings for next week/previous week several
>> times.  I'm sad to say I'm not done fiddling.
>> 
>> The Devil went south of Market
>> He was looking for a soul to steal
>> Actually, he was looking for some keys to bind
>> Preview was a teensy bit behind
>> And he was willin' to make a deal.
>> 
>> When he came upon this young Windows user
>> Using the keyboard and playin' it hot.
>> The devil jumped up on a Herman Miller chair and said,
>
> LOL
>
>> "Boy let me tell you what:
>> 
>> I bet you didn't know it,
>> but I'm a keyboard user too,
>> and if you'd care to type a bit
>> I'll show you something cool.
>> If you hold down ctrl+shift+left arrow
>> You'll go to the previous week"
>> 
>> The boy said, "My name's Johnny
>> And it might be a sin
>> But I'll try your keybindings,
>> But you're gonna regret
>> Because they're bound to something else.
>> 
>> The Devil opened up Chandler,
>> And he pulled his fingers across the keys
>> And it made an evil hiss
>> Then a band of demons joined in
>> And moved the the date around.
>> 
>> When the devil finished Johnny said,
>> "Well you're pretty good ol' son!
>> But sit down in that chair right there
>> And let me show you how it's done!"
>> 
>> He opened up Notepad (run boys run)
>> Typed off some gibberish like "rising sun"
>> Hit ctrl+shift+left to select the previous word
>> Granny does your Chandler do this? No, child, no
>> 
>> The devil bowed his head
>> Because he knew that he'd been beat
>> "Perhaps Alt+Left and Alt+Right would work better
>> For Windows users at least?"
>> 
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qepv1mtYdx0
>> 
>> Jeffrey
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