Re: st: escape to the command window lost in 5/18 executable update

[Nick Winter <nw53@cornell.edu>]

I completely agree -- I like the new features, but never realized how often 
I used the escape key to get back to the command window until it stopped 
working!

--Nick Winter


At 10:18 AM 6/4/2004 -0700, you wrote:

> Does anyone else miss the ability to <escape> quickly from the help 
> (viewer) window back to the command window?  This was previously an 
> apparently undocumented, maybe even unintentional, but very convenient 
> function of the escape key.
>
> In a communication yesterday with Chinh Nguyen of StataCorp, I wrote the 
> following and also asked if polling Statalist to see if others might now 
> miss this feature would help in the decision to bring this feature back or 
> not. Chinh didn't realize the the escape key previously did this, 
> indicated that the loss of this function was unintentional, and replied 
> that, yes, a query to Statalist would help in deciding where to go with it.
>
> ********
> (excerpt from message to Stata Tech support)
> Though I welcome many of the windowing improvements in the May 18 
> executable update (eg. ability to lock the relative positions of the 
> review and variables windows wrt the main stata window, keyboard scrolling 
> of the results window, etc.), my stumbling fingers grumble daily about the 
> loss of one feature - the ability to return to the command window from the 
> help (viewer) window with a simple touch of the escape key.  This may 
> sound like a pretty minor gripe, but the transition from command window -> 
> help (viewer) -> command window is a very frequent sequence for me, and 
> much easier to navigate blindly and mouselessly with the escape key than 
> looking down to make sure I hit the ctrl-4 combination correctly.
>
> What is the likelihood of bringing this back?
> *********
>
> Thanks,
> Gary Longton
>
>
>
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