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tabIndent.js - A JavaScript Library For Tab-Enabled TextAreas

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Post by Hirvesh » Fri, Nov 30, 2012, 7:18 PM UTC

tabIndent.js - A JavaScript Library For Tab-Enabled TextAreas
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Post by Hirvesh » Fri, Nov 30, 2012, 7:19 PM UTC

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Post by rpicard » Fri, Nov 30, 2012, 7:56 PM UTC

I don't see a license specified anywhere. What is it released under?

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Post by kibwen » Fri, Nov 30, 2012, 8:00 PM UTC

Something like this would make markdown editing in Github comments usable.

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Post by romaniv » Fri, Nov 30, 2012, 8:13 PM UTC

It's rather unfortunate that tab is also used for keyboard navigation between fields, since this would be the default behavior of text areas I would like.

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Post by fratis » Fri, Nov 30, 2012, 8:39 PM UTC

This is awesome. I'd love if the developer would add (even if it were optional) Command+[ / Command+] functionality to indent multiple lines at a time.

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Post by todd3834 » Fri, Nov 30, 2012, 9:00 PM UTC

Pretty cool! Would be even cooler with vim commands ;-)

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Post by dergachev » Fri, Nov 30, 2012, 9:35 PM UTC

Awesome. One could make a useful bookmarklet out of this.

I'm worried about accessibility.

Most of the time tabs are used to navigate between fields, so it'd be cool if this was "opt-in", eg entering the textarea would render an icon to click that enabled this feature. Or at least some way to tell the user that pressing the ESCAPE key is how you should tab-out of the field.

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Post by arcatek » Fri, Nov 30, 2012, 9:38 PM UTC

fratis wrote: post #6

This is awesome. I'd love if the developer would add (even if it were optional) Command+[ / Command+] functionality to indent multiple lines at a time.

Windows/Emacs user here. What does these shortcuts do ?

Re: tabIndent.js - A JavaScript Library For Tab-Enabled TextAreas

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Post by mtrimpe » Fri, Nov 30, 2012, 9:45 PM UTC

dergachev wrote: post #8

Awesome. One could make a useful bookmarklet out of this. I'm worried about accessibility. Most of the time tabs are used to navigate between fields, so it'd be cool if this was "opt-in", eg entering the textarea would render an icon to click that enabled this feature. Or at least some way to tell the user that pressing the ESCAPE key is how you should tab-out of the field.

You could also let people tab-through by not enabling this functionality until you move within the text-field.