Display Panel, return = confirm, ^return = newline?

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Display Panel, return = confirm, ^return = newline?

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What?
In the Display Panel GUI's text field, could `return = confirm and close dialog` and `shift+return = new line`?
Why?
  • Text entry requires you take your hand off your mouse for typing; re-finding the mouse has a necessary delay to it, where most players will also re-man their WASD controls at the same time. It feels bad to still be in the text entry dialog when in this "WASD" mode, if that makes any sense, and would feel better in my opinion to exit it while in "Text Entry" mode.
  • `shift+return = new line` is a largely standardized way to introduce new breaks in dialogs where `return` itself usually confirms the entry, like with chat clients. I feel that Display Panels are treated similarly enough to this, line breaks rarer than single line Display Panels, that this might be the preferred control scheme for people.
  • This is very minor I know, but Display Panels are very cool and the ergonomic hic-cup has been very noticeable when setting many of them at once.
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