[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#7127) [FS] chatline

["Morgan Jones" <morgan.jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7127 >

>> Why not use the Esc key to both open and close the chatline?  This
>> seems intuitive to me and there quite a few programs (admittedly
>> Amiga ones) that use this.  Saves on enter/return confusion and we
>> don't seem to use Esc for anything else.
> 
> At least Diablo2 also uses Return for the popup. I want to use
> Escape for closing of a screen (or any popups). Yes I agree that the
> Enter/Return thing is a problem. The only other solution I could
> think of is something like Shift-Return for the chatline popup.
> 
The only other options I can think of is the Tab key and the key above
it (with the ` and the ~ on it, IIRC Quake uses this).  I think we
already use Tab for something.

Otherwise, at least in the MUI client F4 doesn't do anything.  Maybe
'Del' ?

     -Morgan