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Maybe pressing the Return key should commit an active edit (as the Enter key currently does). However, if no edit is active and the action is only selected, then have the Return key create a new action with the cursor in the title field, ready for editing.
The practical difference is that you'd have to hit Return twice to create a new action if you're currently editing some other action (once to commit the current edit and once again to create the new action). Would this be acceptable? -Dennis |
To be honest, part of my difficulty with this is the move from Windows. I am totally in love with my iMac, but there is a learning curve. I can't tell you how many times I've tried to skip to the next word with ctrl-right and ended up in an adjacent screen space. These things take time to re-learn, and although many of them are universal, some have "dialects", different between PC and Mac. I think this whole business of escape/return/enter is one of those dialect things.
I don't believe I've even touched the "enter" key since I got the iMac last month. Is that the one next to the numeric keypad? Seems a long way to reach when I've normally been entering alphabetical data :|
I have a general complaint, which applies across the board these days, to all software on all platforms, pretty much... there are never quite enough keyboard shortcuts. No matter how many of them you learn, at some point you always have to pick up that damn mouse and spend a couple of seconds making sure it's over a control, then clicking it. In the case of OF it's the inspector window, which I am currently finding something of a nightmare. There's a hotkey to open it, but after that, there are no hotkeys to navigate within it because the main window still has focus. Since you have to use the mouse to click in the inspector regardless, why on Earth have they bothered to provide a shortcut to open it? :) Have I missed something, or is there an easy way to enter extended data in the inspector without picking up my mouse? Sorry, I may be straying off topic here...