Re: TAB should move from field to field

2011-04-25 Thread Ted Zlatanov
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:19:02 -0500 "Roland Winkler" wrote: RW> On Mon Apr 25 2011 Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I'd personally even prefer if fields work as "sexp", so I can just use >> M-C-SPC to mark a few fields and then M-w to copy them. >> I.e. hooking into forward-sexp-function would suit my fi

Re: TAB should move from field to field

2011-04-25 Thread Roland Winkler
On Mon Apr 25 2011 Stefan Monnier wrote: > I'd personally even prefer if fields work as "sexp", so I can just use > M-C-SPC to mark a few fields and then M-w to copy them. > I.e. hooking into forward-sexp-function would suit my fingers. Interesting idea - though admittedly I don't know yet how thi

Re: TAB should move from field to field

2011-04-25 Thread Stefan Monnier
> If I could add a rider request to this, it would be great to have a > single key command to copy the field contents to the kill ring (the way > 'M' does now for the primary mail address). I often need to copy > people's details to other places, and every time I do I wish I had this… I'd personal

Re: TAB should move from field to field

2011-04-24 Thread Roland Winkler
On Sun Apr 24 2011 Ted Zlatanov wrote: > I'd use `p' and `n' to move between records and TAB only between fields > of a record. That way when you lean on TAB you don't get surprised, and > if you're on the last field you can go to the first one in a circular way. To the best of my knowledge, none

Re: TAB should move from field to field

2011-04-24 Thread Ted Zlatanov
On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 04:17:14 +0800 Leo wrote: L> I have one suggestion. I think making TAB move from field to field is L> useful. For example, in the following record, assume point at `R'ichard, L> TAB could move from R -> F -> m -> n -> next record L> Richard Stallman - FSF L>m

Re: TAB should move from field to field

2011-04-23 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
On Sun, Apr 24 2011, Roland Winkler wrote: > On Sun Apr 24 2011 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >> Seems like preserving line breaks in multi-line fields (and removing >> any left-hand whitespace) would be all the formatting you'd need > > Well, I guess that extracting the field from the database with jus

Re: TAB should move from field to field

2011-04-23 Thread Leo
On 2011-04-24 01:48 +0800, Roland Winkler wrote: > On Sat Apr 23 2011 Leo wrote: >> I have one suggestion. I think making TAB move from field to field is >> useful. For example, in the following record, assume point at `R'ichard, >> TAB could move from R -> F -> m -> n -> next record > > Sounds lik

Re: TAB should move from field to field

2011-04-23 Thread Roland Winkler
On Sun Apr 24 2011 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > Seems like preserving line breaks in multi-line fields (and removing > any left-hand whitespace) would be all the formatting you'd need Well, I guess that extracting the field from the database with just some "base formatting" should be a yet shorter wa

Re: TAB should move from field to field

2011-04-23 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
On Sun, Apr 24 2011, Roland Winkler wrote: > On Sun Apr 24 2011 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >> If I could add a rider request to this, it would be great to have a >> single key command to copy the field contents to the kill ring (the way >> 'M' does now for the primary mail address). I often need to co

Re: TAB should move from field to field

2011-04-23 Thread Roland Winkler
On Sun Apr 24 2011 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > If I could add a rider request to this, it would be great to have a > single key command to copy the field contents to the kill ring (the way > 'M' does now for the primary mail address). I often need to copy > people's details to other places, and every

Re: TAB should move from field to field

2011-04-23 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
On Sun, Apr 24 2011, Roland Winkler wrote: > On Sat Apr 23 2011 Leo wrote: >> I have one suggestion. I think making TAB move from field to field is >> useful. For example, in the following record, assume point at `R'ichard, >> TAB could move from R -> F -> m -> n -> next record > > Sounds like a g

Re: TAB should move from field to field

2011-04-23 Thread Roland Winkler
On Sat Apr 23 2011 Leo wrote: > I have one suggestion. I think making TAB move from field to field is > useful. For example, in the following record, assume point at `R'ichard, > TAB could move from R -> F -> m -> n -> next record Sounds like a good idea. Yet all fields except for the name field a