Re: First UI component needing replacement.

["Michael T. Babcock" <mbabcock fibrespeed net>]

Part of the problem we've discovered when this was discussed last year was
the highlighting = selection problem in the file selection box as well --
because many behaviours that would be nice would depend on that selection
system and it kills cut'n'paste on X (which I'd gladly lose -- its not much
benefit so far anyway :-).

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Fox" <kfox@vulpes.com>


> "Michael T. Babcock" wrote:
> > From: "Ken Fox" <kfox@vulpes.com>
> > > If people don't like <space> and all the reasonable <tab> combinations
are
> > > taken, what if we use <shift><space> or <control><space>?
> >
> > I'm not sure this is a good proposal, but what if it were a function key
or
> > the "?" key (which would then have to be escaped as a character in
> > filenames)?
>
> I was hoping that <?> would be the "only shows files beginning with what
> I've typed so far" command. Originally I was hoping for <space> to be the
> auto-complete command. <control><space> could be used instead of <space>.
>
> People don't seem to upset with the thought of making '?' harder to use as
> a file name, but ' ' is a problem. Is this a fair summary?