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

[Ramez Labib-S. <sa...@lo...>]

The Windows and the KDE behavior is as described by Jakob. The Java 
convention is an aberration.

- rls

Matt Chaput wrote:

> 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