[OSM-talk] Ideas for Potlatch

[Jo]

Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> Lauri Hahne wrote:
>
>   
>> There are few quirks currently with Potlatch. I hope somebody could   
>> fix these :D
>>     
>
> Some good suggestions, thanks!
>
>   
>> 1. The auto complete is great but its behaviour is a bit non-standard.
>> Currently only enter chooses the currently highlighted item and jumps
>> to the next box. Usually tab does this too, and it must be dozens of
>> times I've hit tab and then had to return to complete the tag name.
>>     
>
> Ha, I'm never sure what to do with this one.
>
> Tab is standard for people who are used to *nix shells.
>
> On Windows and OS X, IME, tab jumps from field to field. Enter/Return  
> selects from an auto-complete menu (e.g. Safari, Excel). (The  
> behaviour of tab in auto-complete apps is inconsistent, on OS X at  
> least.) Potlatch is following Windows/OS X behaviour rather than *nix  
> shell behaviour.
>
> It's important that there's a keypress for "move to next field without  
> auto-complete", so that you can type "high=very" as well as  
> "highway=primary". (I will for the moment ignore those who feel there  
> should be RULES to PREVENT non-standard tags being USED.) As to  
> whether this is Tab or Enter, I'm not greatly fussed, but it seems  
> more logical to me that Enter should stick with its general sense of  
> "accept choice".
>   
I wouldn't mind if you reverse them. I'm also used to jump from field to 
field using tab and it bites me as well quite often that I use tab when 
I mean enter.

Polyglot