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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: 70413@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#70413: 30.0.50; FR: skip inactive widgets when tabbing
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 15:53:48 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <865xwhjwo3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zfttpstx.fsf@gmx.net> (bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org)

> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 11:20:10 +0200
> From:  Stephen Berman via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> In buffers containing widgets, such as the Customize buffers, the
> widgets can be either active or inactive: when you click (with the mouse
> or RET) on an active widget, its associated action is executed, and when
> you click on an inactive widget, this raises the error "Attempt to
> perform action on inactive widget".  You can navigate among the widgets
> by pressing TAB or S-TAB to move point to the next or previous widget.
> 
> I think it would be useful and convenient to skip over inactive widgets
> when tabbing; e.g. you then avoid accidentally tabbing to an inactive
> widget, typing RET and getting the error, and in a buffer with many
> active and inactive widgets, you can tab more quickly to the desired
> active widget by skipping over the inactive ones.
> 
> The attached patch implements this behavior.  Since tabbing to inactive
> widgets has always been the behavior in the widget library, skipping is
> conditioned on the value of a boolean defcustom, with the default being
> the current non-skipping.

This is OK, but please announce this new option in NEWS.





  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-16 12:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-16  9:20 bug#70413: 30.0.50; FR: skip inactive widgets when tabbing Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-04-16 12:53 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-04-16 21:56   ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-04-16 22:04     ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-04-17 12:04       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-17 13:57         ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-04-17 15:42           ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-17 17:36             ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-04-17 17:37               ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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