[PATCH] Fixing ticket #468 Up/Down arrows don't work with tags

Gehad Elrobey gehadelrobey at gmail.com
Fri Mar 21 22:22:52 PDT 2014


The return key auto completes the word while the space key is used to enter
another tag not to auto complete.

In this case it is impossible to know if you are going to insert a new tag
or you just want to move to another field.

Regards,
Gehad elrobey
On Mar 22, 2014 3:41 AM, "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
wrote:

> Well, without even testing, I'm assuming this makes the <tab> key do
> what I want for the empty case.
>
> But when you *are* actually editing a buddy name, at *that* point you
> want tab to complete the name, not switch focus. And at that point
> completing the name with <space> is nonintuitive and possibly even
> wrong (ie space can very much be part of the name!)
>
> So no, what I was looking for was a "modal" <tab> key. If in the
> middle of editing, it autocompletes, but if you haven't started
> writing a name it just switches focus to the next element.
>
>              Linus
>
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