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Originally Posted by isarl
Thank you so much. I knew I had seen this option before but couldn't find it for the life of me, and Google led me to this thread. Leaving a comment in case anybody else has the same frustration I had.
Although the configuration option says it's about the Tab key, enabling it does pretty much what I want it to: if I click on a composite column in the book list, the Template editor window no longer pops up. The field might seem to enter an edit mode, with placeholder text saying that editing composite columns is disallowed, but this can be dismissed with the ESC key. More importantly, I don't have to dismiss the template editor. 
TL;DR: the above-mentioned configuration option affects the behaviour of mouse clicks too, not just the tab key it claims to. (And that's a good thing!) |
What you are seeing is the interaction of this preference and the tweak "Control behavior of the book list (ID: doubleclick_on_library_view)".
It is true that the preference disables editing a composite column via any method other than F2. I will change the documentation and tooltip to say that. However, the tweak can disable editing a column via a single click. Depending on what you want to do, setting one or both of them might be appropriate.
For example, I never want to start editing a field, any field, when I click in it. To accomplish this I set the tweak "double_click_on_library_view" to "edit_cell". This disables single clicks from editing a cell. If you also want to prevent editing a composite when tabbing in from editing the cell just before it then set the option as well.
If you *do* want to edit a cell with a single click then set the tweak appropriately. You can then use the option to prevent editing composites (and only composites) with a single click.