#9913: No word-wise jumping in Mail and Vision
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Reporter: humdinger | Owner: jscipione
Type: bug | Status: reopened
Priority: normal | Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: Kits/Interface Kit | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords: shortcut
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Changes (by humdinger):
* status: closed => reopened
* resolution: fixed =>
* milestone: R1/beta1 => Unscheduled
Comment:
This is hrev50544.
Sorry for re-opening this ticket, seemingly without specific cause...
This is something that has annoyed me for many years (I can't believe
it's been torturing me for almost 4 years now!!).
I don't think the issue is really fixed.
Ever since the keyboard shortcut to jump wordwise in a text view was
changed from CTRL+cursor to CMD+cursor, the behaviour is inconsistent
between applications. Most notably, Terminal still jumps using CTRL,
Vision doesn't word-jump at all, and Web+ doesn't either (CMD+cursorLeft
goes Back instead). Mail had a very intuitive quoting shortcut with
CMD+cursor, the one it uses now isn't reachable with my keymap.[[BR]]
Esp. in Web+ I often sigh aloud, because I don't dare use either CMD or
CTRL + cursor, because I can't remember which one does/doesn't work and I
don't want to potentially lose my text...
A TextView overriding CMD+cursor to word-jump when it's active isn't
always useful. See Vision, where the TextView is pretty much always
active. It also doesn't work there. Neither in Web+. Having CMD+cursor
also might come in handy for a text editor (for indenting, for example).
Going back to system-wide CTRL+cursor for word-jumping is the simplest,
sanest solution IMO. Otherwise, I implore you to please end my misery and
adapt all apps to be consistent, most importantly Web+ and Terminal.
Vision is an external app, but it should also be adapted.
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