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Re: "Longer input text fields"
I like how qutebrowser (a web browser) does it: if you have focus on a input you write normally, but if you press a special shortcut then your favorite editor (configurable) opens up with whatever text you had already written, you write more, and then you save the file which triggers qutebrowser to read it and insert it into the original input. Basically, delegate the task of editing text to a text editor.
2023-05-17 · 4 months ago
@satch Now that you mention it, I wouldn't mind an expanded input prompt with a larger size myself. The default dialog font that is used in Lagrange can be a bit tiny for actually composing a longer piece of text.
Maybe a nice solution would be for the Zoom In/Out keys to work in the input prompt to resize the dialog and the font.
@lufte Delegating to another app that does the job better is usually a great choice, however with Gemini in particular there is that maximum length limitation that is difficult to enforce in the external text editor...
My thoughts are that if the client can auto size in a fluid way, then it’s not good to try to make the server be in charge of it. I didn’t remember or notice that Lagrange handles this smoothly until @satch mentioned it.
2023-05-18 · 4 months ago
It would be great to have shortcut/button to expand the input area to half the page/full page.
2023-05-21 · 4 months ago
@shtirlic This is more of a client thing, for me that's Lagrange. If there was a "big-input" button, the type-in panel could get bigger and the insert-line-break key could change from "shift enter" to "enter".
2023-05-25 · 4 months ago
@cquenelle One option for that would be to repurpose the Titan upload UI for a "big input" mode. It might motivate me to improve the in-app text editing capabilities. 🙂
@cquenelle @skyjake I really like this idea of having the line break key change from enter to shift+enter when the user switches to big input mode. It would be very convenient.
Longer input text fields — I'm not proposing a spec update or anything like that, yet (as that seems unlikely). This is just more of a question. Is there anything that can be to tell a browser that an input field is long and should be displayed like a textarea preferably? For a search box or for simple question/answer type inputs the current input is appropriate. But for longer fields, such a when posting on Bubble, it should be displayed more like the tweet box on Twitter. The other solution...
💬 sirwilburthefirst · 11 comments · 2023-05-17 · 4 months ago