On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Keshav Kini <keshav.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Keshav Kini <keshav.k...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> writes: >>>> Rather enjoying my off day, but the lingering effects of pchem >>>> homework remain.. I keep hitting shift+enter instead of enter cuz Ive >>>> been using Sage so much! >>> >>> That is kind of backwards from most UIs, isn't it? Typically shift+enter >>> is used to insert a literal line break in an input field and enter is >>> used to submit. >> >> The input part of a cell is a multiline textarea, and enter is rarely >> the submit keystroke in a multiline input in other UI's. Usually >> enter creates a carriage return and there is a button to submit (e.g., >> see every web form, Google +, Facebook posts, etc.). Of course, >> Facebook *comments* on posts make enter submit and shift-enter a >> newline. > > But it doesn't display as multiline - it starts out as single-line and > stretches.
(I'm guessing "it" = "The Sage Notebook".) > This is similar to the Facebook comment box, where Enter > submits and Shift+Enter inserts literal line breaks. (I'm guessing "this" = the sage notebook.) > The Facebook post > submission box starts out several lines tall, It starts out one line, then becomes 3 lines when you click on it. And then it expands. Starting with 1 line versus "1 then 3" lines is in my opinion a red herring. That's the only difference. > as does the Google+ post > submission box and the Google+ comment box, and all of those have the > opposite behavior. "Opposite behavior" to what? In any case, *fully configurable* is clearly the way to go. William -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
