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pasted email from Erich Gamma --- Here are some wishes after having used the editor drop down for a while. I understand the intent to keep it as simple as possible. One functionality I miss in the drop down is support to easily close an editor without having to activate it first. Without this support I have to: 1) open the drop down 2) select the editor 3) select the close box It woud be convenient to close an editor in the drop down directly. For example: * support a context menu (as is done in the Favorites menu of IE) * support the ctrl+w short cut on the selection in the editor drop down * provide some modifier click Much less important but it would be neat to be able to activate an editor without dismissing the drop down. For example a shift-click activates the editor. This allows me to pre-view which editor it is. --erich
*** Bug 53558 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
- i added the ability to press the DEL key to close editors in this drop down. it leaves the drop down open. - bug 53186 requests a context menu for the items in the dropdown list. i'm keeping this bug open because: - the functionality should probably be advertised to the user (perhaps i should add 'press DEL to close' at the bottom of the dropdown) - we should support proper keybindings for close: ctrl+w, or even customized keybindings, advertising them to the user appropriately. - 'shift-click' functionality (and the corresponding keyboard equivalent 'Shift+ENTER')
*** Bug 53089 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
the Delete key does work, however we should have a close menu as well on the list.
It should also be possible to repeatedly press the delete key. Currently, after the first press of the delete key there is no more selection and you have to re-select. Pressing delete should automatically select the next item in the list.
Created attachment 10267 [details] Fixes bugs 54019 and 60476 No default element is selected in the list. Pressing DEL will remove the item and select the next available item. A right-click pops up a close menu which does the same thing as pressing DEL. In the text filter area: pressing down will move the user to the first element in the list ; pressing up will move the user to the last element in the list.
(minor) since you have improved the cursor navigation behaviour... here is another possible improvement: when pressing down at the bottom of the list you could wrap-around to the first item in the list. I understand that home/end are already supported, but this is the behaviour supported in code assist and I got used to it.
Could you please open a new enhancement bug for that feature?
yes this is the right thing to do - sorry. bug# 61038 it is
Fix in HEAD.
Verified for integration build I20040519, Wed, 19 May 2004 -- 00:10 (-0400) A new bug was created for additional comments not handled in this fix: Bug 63094
