Jump on next node on separator key press

[MartinNuc]

People in my country are used to write date in this format: DD. mm. YYYY

However when I fill days with single digit (eg. 5th November) I have to press right arrow to jump to the month part.

It would be great if I could press a . (or -, / for other locales) to jump to the month part.

I would like to create PR but want to discuss this feature first. These are possible solutions coming to my mind:

1. check for keypresses for all separators regardless user's locale. Means to listen on all keycodes like 190, 189 etc
2. somehow detect separator in the pattern and listen only for that keypress
3. listen for keypress based on user's locale

Personally I think the easiest and sufficient solution is the 1.

What do you think?

[eight04]

I prefer 2. We can get the separator with range.node.next.token.value by adding some code nearing https://github.com/eight04/angular-datetime/blob/master/src/directive.js#L429

[MartinNuc]

Ok I will detect separator. I have already some proof of concept. Let me prepare PR during this weekend or by beginning of the next week.

[MartinNuc]

@eight04 One more idea. What if the key for jumping on the next segment would be configurable through directives attributes. The reason is that in our country we use . as a date separator (eg. 27.5.2008). However on the numeric part of czech keyboard there is , character.

For our use case we would appreciate to be able to jump to the next fragment not only by pressing next separator (.) but also when pressing ,.

What do you think about it?

[eight04]

👍 The user should be able to define a set of separate key regardless of the next segment character. Maybe something like <input type="text" datetime="..." datetime-sep=",">. Default to ""

[MartinNuc]

Resolved in #26