On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Note the use of Ctl-6 instead of Ctl-1 to chain new objects. I like that *a lot*. It could be extended to Ctl-7, Ctl-8 and Ctl-9 for messages, numbers, and symbols. No need for an additional Shift-modifier and fully compatible to the old behaviour.
The problem I see with Ctrl+6 is that when extending it to 2,3,4 you need 7,8,9, which is taking away a lot of keys, and then it does not deal with the fact that few people want to deal with typing [nbx] or [hsl] or [hradio] every time they use the auto-connect, while they are used to doing the same non-auto-connect things using special Ctrl+Shift commands.
Another idea I just had, is to have Ctrl+Return do like Return does (finish the object), plus creating a dangling wire that will auto-connect to whichever object is created next. The Escape key could delete the dangling wire.
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