Re: [Gnumed-devel] SOAP widget navigation

[Jim Busser]

On Jul 15, 2004, at 9:17 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> > - Return and Enter keys function the same, both inserting a paragraph
> > mark OR (if the keypress is preceded by a specified character yet to 
> > be
> > decided
> AND there are no other characters *following* the current insertion 
> point
> > ... [then] either key will jump to the next SOAP line

So if in a visit I have so far got:

S: sore throat 3d, mild pain on swallow, no nose, ear Sx, no cough
O: temp 37.8, ENT N, chest clear
A:
P:

and I am about to jump to Assessment, but the patient notices I wrote 
3d, and says it has actually been a week, and while I am at it, I 
confirm "no fever?" - "no"

So I now click back into S: selecting the 3, replacing with 7 and 
inserting "no fever":

S: sore throat 7d, no fever, mild pain on swallow, no nose, ear Sx, no 
cough
                                       ^--- current insertion point 
after "no fever"
O: temp 37.8, ENT N, chest clear
A:
P:

so my current insertion point is after "no fever" and now I want to 
jump to "A:", but how to do it from the keyboard, if Enter is to be 
constrained by the presence of characters beyond "no fever"?

Also, in our weighing how to support "new line" versus "jump to next 
SOAP element", which key presses would in actual practice be most 
numerous?
- new lines within all the SOAP elements, or
- jumps across RFE/SOAP/AOE

The examples so far have been kept very short and simple but, in actual 
use, may we expect point form within SOAP to be desirable and often 
generate several lines across SOAP, easily outnumbering the jumps 
across elements? If that indeed is likely, then is it better for the 
default action of return/enter be to create a new line, and for some 
other key combination (or a character followed by Enter) to be used to 
signal the desire to jump? People whose existing EMR supports 
paragraphs and point form could comment from experience.

Also, if we wish the editor to be understood to be a text editor, 
however smart, it seems daffy to expect the average doc (who has not 
followed GnuMed development) to expect the Return/Enter key to do 
anything other than behave like a word processor and create a new line 
in the insertion point situation described above:

S: sore throat 7d, no fever
, mild pain on swallow, no nose, ear Sx, no cough
<or more appealingly a hanging indent thus:>
S: sore throat 7d, no fever
    , mild pain on swallow, no nose, ear Sx, no cough