Jaque:
Thanks for the polite explanation. I wondered whether this might have
been because early Macs did not have function keys (I don't recall: I
had a Fat Mac decades ago, but then gave up on trying to support both
platforms). In that case, the designers had few choices, and I guess
that <tab> is somewhat non-printing.
Jon
J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 6/28/05 5:54 PM, Jon wrote:
> And, BTW, I NEVER would have guessed that the <tab> key did ANYTHING
> other than enter <tab> characters into the text. This is a great
> example of a totally bizarre UI that you folks have become so used to
> that you can't see the strangeness of it.
Not an excuse, but an explanation: HyperCard started this convention
20 years ago. SuperCard took it up to be compatible and continued it.
When MetaCard came along, it too adopted the same tab-key behavior.
Revolution continues the long tradition. So, there have been four
x-talk IDEs that use this convention spanning many years. And that's why.
In Revolution, it is mentioned in the Help menu -> Quick Reference
Guides -> Shortcut Reference. I admit this isn't easy to find.
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