Re: [Usability]gedit line wrapping and keyboard navigation

[David Lazaro <dlazaro acm org>]

On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 04:15, Joshua Adam Ginsberg wrote:
> Re: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107904
> [...]
> In the bug I brought up an example where the following of visible lines
> is particularly annoying. Say I'm editing code and I have to change the
> number of tab indents of a series of lines. I'm used to having a
> repeated use of "down, left, tab" to insert an additional indent.
> However with the down key following visible lines and not logical lines,
> I have to consider whether hitting the down key has taken me to a new
> logical line or kept me on the same one.

IMHO the problem lies with the tabifying operation and not with the
behaviour of the arrow keys.  This tabify operation can be accelerated
by using a "tabify selection" action.

It is something that is available in other development environments; you
select a block and press the tab key, the result is that the whole
selection gets indented to the right; if you press Shift+Tab, the
selection is indented to the left.  Much handier and speedier in my
opinion.

Regards,

David.