Clipper - more keyboard controls
Submitted by Thursday, 15 July, 2004 - 04:36
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Simple, killer little pluggie, Clipper is.
A few more features I'd love to see:
- Pressing Escape (or other user-defined key) pops you out of plugin, as Switch Buffer and others do.
- When Clipper is toggled on, focus should land on the list box, allowing me to start typing the first few chars of the clip-text I'm interested in selecting. Currently I need to grab the mouse, lug it to the list box, and only then can I start typing to find a clip.
- Alt/meta key combos to allow me to jump between the combo box and the list box without requiring me to use the mouse. Less mouse, more efficiency. (I've become obsessed with this concern)
- Short-cut keys should work for toggling Clipper both on *and* off. For example, I assigned Shift-Space to open/close Clipper. When I first hit the shortcut combo, Clipper opens, but when I type it again, Clipper sits there, poker-faced. It doesn't go away.
If these features were implemented, Clipper would be far sexier for power jEditors.
Otherwise, very cool plugin, thanks to André Kaplan.
-Paul
A few more features I'd love to see:
- Pressing Escape (or other user-defined key) pops you out of plugin, as Switch Buffer and others do.
- When Clipper is toggled on, focus should land on the list box, allowing me to start typing the first few chars of the clip-text I'm interested in selecting. Currently I need to grab the mouse, lug it to the list box, and only then can I start typing to find a clip.
- Alt/meta key combos to allow me to jump between the combo box and the list box without requiring me to use the mouse. Less mouse, more efficiency. (I've become obsessed with this concern)
- Short-cut keys should work for toggling Clipper both on *and* off. For example, I assigned Shift-Space to open/close Clipper. When I first hit the shortcut combo, Clipper opens, but when I type it again, Clipper sits there, poker-faced. It doesn't go away.
If these features were implemented, Clipper would be far sexier for power jEditors.
Otherwise, very cool plugin, thanks to André Kaplan.
-Paul