Numpad Enter to commit text.
Please, please, please can the devs change Illustrator so that the Numpad Enter key submits/commits text rather than going to a new line?
Seb James
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Photoshop has a separate option in Preferences > Type, 'Use ESC key to commit text'.
I don’t mind to have the same one for Ai, along with 'Use Numpad Enter key to commit text'.
This way each user could customize the behavior to match their background...Consistency is a hard thing to do. These apps (and you dropped InDesign!) are deceptively similar, but differ a ton, and muscle memory for users that come from different fields is strong. These would never match, but definitely options like this one must exist.
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Seb James
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"Interesting. I wonder when you get the habit to try to use Numpad Enter for this? Is this a common way to do it somewhere else?"
@Egor Chistyakov This is the way that text is submitted in After Effects, that I use daily. So when I jump to Illustrator for some vector/design work it can get a bit irritating when the program goes down a line instead of submitting text.
If I use ESC in after effects it does not submit the text, it cancels it and deletes the layer - the opposite of what happens in Illustrator.
It just makes sense for some basic consistency across the Adobe design programs for simple things like this, in Photoshop, AE, and Illustrator.
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Also relates (this times a lot) to this one, already closed:
Hotkey to exit Type mode
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/33583834 -
Related (in a way) to this bug report:
Pressing Numpad Enter no longer commits editing a note for an object in 27.6.1
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/46804123 -
Interesting. I wonder when you get the habit to try to use Numpad Enter for this? Is this a common way to do it somewhere else?
Technically both Escape and Cmd/Ctrl+Enter commit typing in Ai, so if you just want a key to stop typing, this can be used... but if it’s a habit... well, you are on Windows, so Autohotkey can be a workaround method, even though setting it up to respect the type mode takes a lot of effort.
And actually Escape, when I recheck it, is rather slow to stop editing text! Is it for you, Seb?
