hotlist: now with edit
bulia byak
bulia at dr.com
Wed Feb 5 18:17:53 UTC 2003
> I think we should leave users the choice and allow button hotkeys
> duplication (hotlist hotkeys shoud take precedence). If one doesn't
> want to have his button hotkey obscured - he will choose another
> hotkey for his entry.
Hotkeys that are displayed but do not work are a usability error.
We must not make users wonder "why the highlighted letters stopped
working." So for now I removed all button hotkeys in my patch -
please try it out.
> 2. Do we need to check for duplicate hotkeys in one group?
> As Pavel said there are duplicates even in the menu. We should leave
> the decision to user and the first entry should take precedence. This
> will be convinient with the rest of mc.
I think duplicate hotkeys are an error, both in menu and in a list.
The second one does not work and this can be very confusing. So I
don't think we must be "consistent" in perpetuating such errors. Let
someone else fix the menu; I will make sure no such problems occur
in the hotlist.
> I would prefer standard approach like:
> "My &favourite directory"
> where 'f' will be a hotkey.
As was discussed here some time ago, this would not allow you to use
letters that are not in the label, which is inconvenient. And anyway,
I don't know if it's possible to highlight arbitrary chars in a list,
so I cannot implement your suggestion now. Also, I think it's much
easier to use when all hotkeys are in a column.
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