12-14-2006 13:24
From: Kelly Linden
Keyboard input was made more standard. If the chatbar is up then keys that are normally used for editing text (such as 'Home' and 'End') will work for editing text. If the chat bar does not have focus (hit esc to close it) then 'Home' (7) and 'End' (9) will work as before to start / stop flying etc.
There is (and has long been) a preferences option that (I thought) was intended to allow people to choose whether editing commands should work in the chat bar or should be treated as movement commands[1]. While this option refers to arrow keys by name, it's not clear to me why one would want to use the most common editing keys (left and right arrow) for movement but reserve the less common ones (like home and end) for editing. What I mean is... when this option is selected, then *all* the keypad/cursor motion keys that are normally used for editing text (the four arrows, page-up and page-down, home, and end) should pass throuh to the world, no?

Can this be made consistent? Please?

[1] I realise that it's been slightly modified in the latest release to allow the arrow keys to pass through even if the chat bar is open, if the chat bar is empty. I'm not referring to that change (though to be consistent home and end should *also* be passed through in this situation).