Bring Back Idiomatic Design

Re:Bring Back Idiomatic Design by jimbokun on Sunday April 12, 2026 @07:15PM (#47745512)

I have a very mild jolt of anxiety every time I want to enter a new line in Teams or Slack, wondering if it will send a half completed message I will need to edit after the recipient has seen the half completed message, or it will enter a new line like I want it to.

The behavior also changes if you start editing a numbered or unordered list. Maybe that enters the "formatting tools" mode you mention?

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Re:Bring Back Idiomatic Design by dfxm12 on Sunday April 12, 2026 @07:41PM (#47745702)

If you're worried about this, consider a copy and paste from notepad.

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Re:Bring Back Idiomatic Design by jimbokun on Sunday April 12, 2026 @07:46PM (#47745758)

Note the "very mild" jolt, not quite enough to rise to the level of switching to Notepad (or Emacs in my case).

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Re:Bring Back Idiomatic Design by abraxas on Sunday April 12, 2026 @11:28PM (#47747232)

Your advice beautifully reinforces OP's case. We now have to use auxiliary apps with more predictable behaviour because designers made such a mess of things.

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Re:Bring Back Idiomatic Design by oneeyedpigeon on Monday April 13, 2026 @05:27AM (#47749682)

We've still yet to reach the "any textbox is just an embedded version of your EDITOR" nirvana.

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Re:Bring Back Idiomatic Design by fireflash38 on Monday April 13, 2026 @08:31AM (#47751053)

Shift enter should always put in a new line. Good luck exiting a block though with it.

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