Hello, It often happens that XXE doesn't do what I meant, because after so much PC usage I do many things motorically, and XXE breaks conventions where the different logic of XXE doesn't warrant that (as far as I see). I guess these are mostly just subtle bugs, and I guess they make XXE feel less handy for many others too. Here they are:
- When you type into the element type or attribute name filter text input, and the list below highlights an entry, the text input where you type isn't auto-filled right to to the cursor. It's what such controls (combo boxes) used to do, at least on Windows. So that's maybe the thing to fix, but if you can't/won't, then my real issue is that if I start to type an attribute name, and the correct attribute is highlighted in the list under, and then I hit Tab to navigate to the attribute value field, the attribute name field will contain the incomplete value (it's not auto-completed). I have discovered that I can press Down before Tab to work that around, but it's not how our (my?) reflexes has evolved, also it's one more key to press. - An edge case of the previous auto-filling strangeness: Let's say I have `<emphasis>foo</emphasis>` that I want to change to just `foo`. So I move the cursor inside "foo", Ctrl+Up, Ctrl+Up, Ctrl+t (so now the cursor is in the element type selector panel), and there I want to select "(text)", which is the top entry. So I just press Down, and "(text)" is highlighted as expected. But, as the text input itself will be still empty (despite that this time I did press Down), when I hit Enter, nothing happens (and I have to start over). To work that around, I have to hit Down twice. The first Down selects "(text)", the second one actually puts it into my text box. - After converting/wrapping a text range selection into an element, undo (Ctrl+z) will not only revert the conversion/wrapping, but also select the the *whole* text node, and you lose the original text section range. So you can't select a range of text, then convert/wrap into element, then undo, then convert/wrap the same text selection into a different element. Even the cursor position is lost, as the cursor jumps at the first character of the text node, so you need to mouse/arrow back to where it was. - Ctrl+C in the attribute value editor cancels the attribute entry. You instinctively press Ctrl+C to copy. Note that the alternative, Ctrl+Ins is not copying in XXE for known reasons, so Ctrl+C is your only option, but it's overloaded in that context. If I really want to cancel the attribute entry, I can press Esc. - Scrolling with mouse wheel or the scroll bar on the side shouldn't move the cursor. When the cursor is off screen, and it's moved by some operation (typically keyboard), the view should jump back to a position where it's visible from. Then usually the cursor is at the top row if we had to jump upwards, and at the bottom row if we had to jump downwards. This is just how it works in pretty much all editors, and I find it a more useful behavior too. -- Thanks, Daniel Dekany -- XMLmind XML Editor Support List xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support
