Re: Navigation in Cell Using Arrow Keys

[Christian Egli <christian egli stest ch>]

Andree Leidenfrost <aleidenf bigpond net au> writes:

> I hope this is not a FAQ and has not been widely discussed before. At
> least I haven't really found anything about this:

In fact this has been discussed here just the other day.

> When double-clicking on a cell in Excel or Openoffice, you can use the
> left and right arrow keys to move the cursor from characters to
> character within the active cell. In gnumeric (0.64 Debian woody & 0.67
> Debian potato both with Gnome packages from XIMIAN), one actually has to
> click in the input field below the toolbar to get this behaviour.

This is what Jody said:

> This would be a nice feature to add but we have not looked at it.
> The current item-edit code will hopefully be replaced by pango and
> support for editing will be added then.  It does not seem worth
> while doing to much work on it until then.

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