Like in a terminal, it would be nice to be able to press up and down to get previous sent messages. Especially as a bot developer this would be really great to have...
Christilut
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But, this would be a problem, because if navigate in the text, for example 3 lines, this would be limited to the used of the mouse or moved with arrow left. This would be problematic and uncomfortable
DarkAbsolutE
on 2 Jul 2015
Yes that's true. But maybe with a modifier like shift or ctrl? I'm not sure what's in use currently.
Christilut
on 2 Jul 2015
This would be interesting, with shift would not be bad, I like the idea. "shift + arrow up"
DarkAbsolutE
on 2 Jul 2015
@Christilut: ctrl+up is usually the default for these sort of thing on IM clients.
@DarkAbsolutE: No, shift+up is an awful idea, since that's used to select several lines of text on any IM client, or any multiline-textfield in most applications.
WhyNotHugo
on 5 Jul 2015
Or something like Alt+P and Alt+N as used on the python interpreter.
+1
Mindstormer619
on 5 Jul 2015
:+1: to ctrl+up
Walkman100
on 5 Jul 2015
@hobarrera is true, I had forgotten.
Ctrl + up using it is a bad idea, for example in my mac, this is the default command to display all open applications. But, the idea it's god, you just have to give an easy to use command without making many movements.
For example the terminal used shit + ctrl + c for copy instead of ctrl + c, because that is already booked.
They could use shift + ctrl + up.
DarkAbsolutE
on 5 Jul 2015
Ctrl + up using it is a bad idea, for example in my mac, this is the default command to [...]
I assume you mean that this is the default on OS X. Indeed, if OS X normally uses ctrl+up for something else, we should use whatever other OS X IM clients use for this. But I'd use ctrl+up on other platforms because it's what other IM clients use, and what every user out there would expect.
Picking a unique keybiding _different_ to other clients would only hurt adoption and confuse users (with no upside to it).
We really should not discuss what key binding to use, and just do what every other client does on each platform (we wouldn't discuss what to use for copy-paste, would we?).
WhyNotHugo
on 5 Jul 2015
Ctrl+Up should be used on every platform except Mac, on a mac the Command key is used instead of Ctrl
Walkman100
on 5 Jul 2015
:+1:
agung-wete
on 13 Oct 2015
Added to #1060 :)
auchri
on 14 Dec 2015
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Added to #1060 :)