keyboard shortcuts and preferences

[John DeSoi]

On Dec 21, 2004, at 8:15 AM, Erik Price wrote:

> 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).

Sorry, but Ctrl-N, Ctrl-P, Ctrl-F, Ctrl-B does not seems to do it. If I 
have a document with 3 columns and I'm in the first column (anywhere) I 
want to jump to the second column. In oo2, I could hit the tab key. But 
if my document only had one column, the tab key indented the current 
line. Ctrl-N, P only moves to the cell above or below. Ctrl-F, B just 
moves one character forward or back: these do exactly the same thing as 
the arrow keys.

> 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.
>

In documents with multiple cells, the tab key has traditionally been 
used for navigating between cells. In oo2, both models where supported. 
It would be nice to have this preference back or at the very least some 
other key combination to navigate across cells.

Best,

John DeSoi, Ph.D.