In my ideal world you could navigate the tiddler completely by keyboard. The problem with the new tag picker is that after you tab out of the tag field, it still remains open. In the case of a large TW file, your view of the tiddler and most of its contents is obscured. In theory you could continue to tab into the text field, but you're tabbing blind because the open tag field is blocking half of your view. The only way to close the tag dropdown is to click into the text field.
Ideally, the tag field dropdown would close as soon as you had navigated out of the last tag field. Also, and I know this isn't necessarily related to the current improvement, it would be good if you you could tab in a single step out of the tag field (the last blank one) and into the text field. There's no point in tabbing through all those control buttons -- they don't work without specifying a place or selection inside the text field. Thanks! On Wednesday, July 29, 2020 at 7:32:00 AM UTC-7, Saq Imtiaz wrote: > > I'd like to highlight a feature that will be included in the next release > of TW and is currently available via the pre-release: > > *Keyboard support for the search field and the tag picker* (thanks to the > hard work of @BTC!). > > You can use the up and down arrow keys to select a search result or tag, > and hit Enter to select it. Escape resets the search. It would be great to > get some more testing and feedback on this feature, and I think it > represents an opportunity to build some new interactions upon. > > Pre-release: > https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/ > > > I've been playing with it yesterday as part of a commitment to do some > further testing before the next TW release. Under the covers it uses a new > macro called *keyboard-driven-input*. > > As part of testing the re-usability of the macro, I've made a quick ten > minute hack, cloning the search tiddler from the top menu to create a > simple editor with a "navigation" field with keyboard support: > > > https://saqimtiaz.github.io/sq-tw/floats.html#%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Fsq%2FNlite%2Feditor > > The keyboard-driven-input macro is by necessity not the easiest to > understand how to use, so hopefully the additional example will help. > > The editor itself is an extra lite approximation of my Notation editor, > but it shows how easily such UIs can be created. > > *Aside (Floats):* > For those that have been following the demo I posted of Floats, you can > get an idea of what I have in mind for it by using the temporary "Edit in > float" button on any tiddler's toolbar, which opens that tiddler in the > above mentioned editor, in a draggable, resizable float: > > https://saqimtiaz.github.io/sq-tw/floats.html > > Now I just need to add support for easily toggling a float, as well as > collapsing and docking at the edge of the screen. > > Cheers, > Saq > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/3606ac9e-885d-4fcf-9b8f-596b77a291e0o%40googlegroups.com.
