keyboard shortcuts and preferences

[Erik Price]

On Dec 20, 2004, at 3:42 PM, John DeSoi wrote:

> Right, I know where the current option is. I was wondering if there 
> was some other key combination for navigating between cells. 
> Apparently not.

It's the exact same key combination that is used for keyboard-based 
navigation in nearly every MacOSX-specific program, from Mail and 
TextEdit to Safari and OmniGraffle -- Ctrl-N, Ctrl-P, Ctrl-F, Ctrl-B 
(and there are others like Ctrl-A, Ctrl-E, and more).  Although in a 
non-document-based application the "tab" key is useless and has 
therefore been appropriated for the purpose of "tabbing around" a user 
interface (made especially popular with web browsers), at one time it 
meant "create an indent in the document", and as a document-based 
application, OO3 is being faithful to this intent.  And of course, in 
keeping with user expectations, shift-tab does the opposite, 
unindenting.


Erik