Re: [gedit-list] after 1 month of use -- gedit feedback / issues

["Kristoffer Lundén" <kristoffer lunden gmail com>]

On 7/2/07, Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com> wrote:
> > > - Configurable chars to be part of word -- like in gnome-terminal's
> > > option: "Select-by-word characters"
> >

Having underscore as a word character would do the right thing in
almost any file of any language including many plain text. It's not
random that all (?) regexp engines include them by default in the
"word character group", usually \w, together with letters and numbers,
and so does just about any text editor I can recall using. That it
doesn't here should be considered a real bug.

The others would be useful but aren't as critical, and in some
situations, like rename, they are actually contra-productive. It's a
trade-off, and moreover, it needs language-specific info to work well.

>  - gedit has Alt+1,2,3,4... to jump directly to the 1st, 2nd, 3d etc tab
> I would not mind having also a way to go to the last used tab, but
> choosing the right key combination is a pain

For this specific scheme, ALT+0 springs to mind as logical. Which
would then of course also toggle between the last two used..

> (Ctrl+Tab is not an option,
> it is needed for Accessibility).

I sure hope this was a real, existing need, because the HIG makes some
really odd and seemingly random decisions at times, and Ctrl+Tab *is*
a de facto standard in almost any other application. Which makes it
even more odd that it should be needed or a standard for
accessibility, when so many apps already do use/block it.

That said, having a GNOME-wide standard is also the right way to go.

-- Kristoffer


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