Tab key in "Try coffeescript"

[metalim]

"Try coffeescript" on coffeescript.com is very useful at times, to validate/play around with the code. However it does not accept tab keypress properly: switches html elements instead of inserting tab char.

[carlsmith]

Shameless plug, but you can use CoffeeShop for the same stuff, and it has a better editor and a decent shell. I don't do much to maintain it, so just use it for casual stuff, but it works really well for experimenting, which I still use it for quite often.

Note: It's Chrome only.

[metalim]

@carlsmith
Ouch. It needs UX specialist.

[carlsmith]

@metalim - No, it doesn't. I use it all the time, and it's really nice. Maybe your set up is different, or you don't get it, but you offered nothing for me to go on, so I wouldn't know what to suggest. Do you have a Mac? I tried it with Windows 7 recently, and that was pretty bad.

[metalim]

@carlsmith
Guess you answered yourself. If Web app works differently on different OSes, something is wrong with it.
Anyway, I'm on Mac. But the issue with CoffeeShop is: it is hard to understand WTF you're doing. UI design is counter-intuitive.

[carlsmith]

If a webapp for programmers works differently on Windows, I couldn't care less to be honest. There's no law. It was only an issue with clobbered keybindings. I don't have Windows, so didn't know what bindings it uses. In any case, you have OS X.

Did you read the docs? Just learning the handful of shortcuts should make it easy to do everything Try CoffeeScript can do and more. You can ignore the other features indefinitely.

I'm not promoting it, as I can't be bothered to maintain it, but it does do everything you want. You just have to learn the shortcuts.

[emptist]

I just give that coffeeshop a try and I also have to read docs first to use it. It would be better if some basic keybindings are shown in the welcome lines and suggestion for further reading also provided when needed.

[carlsmith]

The welcome text does instruct the user to read the docs first (Look through the the docs to get started.). Still, if people are not doing that in practice, then I guess it should made clearer. I'll keep it in mind. Thanks for the feedback.

[carlsmith]

I've updated it to say...

Welcome to CoffeeShop, the HTML5 shell.

Look through the the docs for more information. You will need to read the
Keyboard Shortcuts section to get started.

The Keyboard Shortcuts section is linked to from there too. Hopefully, that'll make things easier for new users. Thanks again for the input guys.

[1j01]

CoffeeScript 2 has a redesigned site with an actual code editor that you can try here.

[GeoffreyBooth]

We’ve also fixed this bug in the current Try CoffeeScript on http://coffeescript.org.

[metalim]

Great news! Thank you.

[carlsmith]

Just to be clear, CoffeeShop is completely unmaintained and its CoffeeScript version is about a year out of date. It was essentially a proof of concept, exploring shell scripting for the client-side, but no one really bought into the idea.