form autocompletion behaviour

[Dirk Mueller]

On Mit, 23 Apr 2003, Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:

> > I think its wrong to intercept the tab keys by default. See patch.
> I think this would piss off some thousands of users. Key_Down as the only 
> means to navigate in the completion listbox is really annoying.

Why is it annoying? Its logical, and it matches the behaviour of every other 
widget. 

Why can't you switch to another input element by using <Tab>, like you can 
do with every other widget? What makes those completion popups special?

re "Several thousand": have you seen the number of votes for this bugreport?

> Tab is the only sensible key we could come up with.

I disagree. I've seen no other GUI capturing the Tab key for this purpose. 


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Dirk