Re: [ jEdit-users ] Usability thingy (default button during save-question)

[Matt C. <ma...@si...>]

Jakob Breivik Grimstveit wrote:
> When clicking Ctrl-W (close window) in an unsaved file/buffer, it of
> course asks me whether I want to save it (Yes/No/Cancel). Often I would
> like to anwer "no", and I thus think the most reasonable way to do this
> is by pressing Tab + Enter. This first moves the focus from "Yes" to
> "No", but pressing enter hits the default button, which is "Yes".

I agree that sounds reasonable, but it's simply not the way the GUI is 
defined to work. Enter *always* means "click the default button". I 
think what you want is space. It will "click" the focused control.

Matt


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