I don't really have a preference to the command, but I also vote yes.
What will this do if there's text in that field already? My vote would be to say something like <buffer text>, and then let the command just put that in. 99% of the time I'm not going to care about whatever pre-filled text there is unless I'm filling out the form.
On 1/9/2019 4:18 AM, Karl Dahlke wrote:
These have annoyed me for quite a while, and come to find they annoy others as well. As per our chat discussions, I made a change, but it's a UI change so should be described here. (Not everyone is on chat.) A fill out form with a textarea use to allocate a buffer for that area at browse time, looking like <buffer 7> It now waits to see if you're actually going to use it, since 90% of the time you don't. It begins life as <buffer ?> An itext (for input text) command allocates a buffer and changes it to <buffer 7> Then you can write text in buffer 7 and submit the form like before. It's one more step for something that is rarely done, but it prevents a ton of empty buffers from accumulating. I have no strong feelings about the actual command name. itext (input text) ibuf (input buffer) iw (input write) ita (input textarea) Long as it starts with i I'm ok. If you change line 760 in decorate.c the old behavior returns. I'm not documenting any of this until a majority thinks it's a good idea. My vote is yes but others may disagree. Karl Dahlke
