<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks Mark appreciate the efforts!</div><div>My hope is to avoid having to learn a new set of shortcuts for just one program. Hopefully others can give a suggestion for how to do "Alt+F,S" and other similar keystrokes.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 1:39 AM, Mark Yagnatinsky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:markyag@gmail.com" target="_blank">markyag@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Re: undo: why not just use Ctrl + Z? You seem to have memorized all the hard-to-use keyboard shortcuts :)</div><div>I spend a few minutes trying to get a script to work. The good news is that I got save working.</div><div>The bad news is that it pops up a dialog box with nothing but the word "true".</div><div>Something tells me your muscle memory will NOT like this.</div><div>At this point someone who actually knows something about TeXworks will have to take over, because I'm way out of my depth here.</div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 12:02 AM, Z Br <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:breigzach@gmail.com" target="_blank">breigzach@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div dir="ltr"><div>Sorry for the clutter but here are two more threads discussing accelerators:</div><div>I was unable to get the attachment in the second file to work, it seems perhaps this is aimed for a Mac?</div><div>Again perhaps Mark or Alain could help out on this.</div><div><a href="https://github.com/TeXworks/texworks/issues/17#issuecomment-80291247" target="_blank">https://github.com/TeXworks/te<wbr>xworks/issues/17#issuecomment-<wbr>80291247</a></div><div><a href="http://tug.org/pipermail/texworks/2010q2/002606.html" target="_blank">http://tug.org/pipermail/texwo<wbr>rks/2010q2/002606.html</a></div></div><div class="m_-7782644562868708273HOEnZb"><div class="m_-7782644562868708273h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 9:49 PM, Z Br <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:breigzach@gmail.com" target="_blank">breigzach@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div dir="ltr"><div>And sorry I need to work on my reading comprehension: one of the important items Mark noted is that what I am looking for is an "accelerator" (I had not heard of that term before): the Alt key activates the pull down menus, and if I had that I would be set.</div><div><br></div><div>I did a google search and a few years ago Alain seems to have discussed this:</div><div><a href="http://tug.org/pipermail/texworks/2013q2/005795.html" target="_blank">http://tug.org/pipermail/texwo<wbr>rks/2013q2/005795.html</a></div><div>Item 1 discusses accelerators! Unfortunately the attachments have been stripped off and I cannot find the directory mentioned there, c:\users\<your_name>\TeXworks\<wbr>translations</div><div><br></div><div>So Alain if you are reading this and still have those files, can you re-post them?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again!</div><div>Zach<br></div></div><div class="m_-7782644562868708273m_421643302751871398HOEnZb"><div class="m_-7782644562868708273m_421643302751871398h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 9:32 PM, Z Br <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:breigzach@gmail.com" target="_blank">breigzach@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks Mark. I have tried reading though that manual but am puzzled as to how to use that to have some key sequence lead the file to be saved: like where would I add in the parameters. Sorry like I said I really have little programming skill :(</div><div><br></div><div>And as an aside yes you are correct in what I am trying for: in Microsoft Windows, the standard key sequence for:</div><div>saving files is Alt <and then> F <and then> S;</div><div>or to undo what was just written is Alt <and then> E <and then> U</div><div>Essentially the Alt activates the pull down menu and then the other keys navigate the pulldown. So if I can create a shortcut or get a script to do this, it will be like virtually every other program I use and will speed my editing. I am guessing others in the Windows world would also benefit from this, so if I figure out a solution I will be sure to post it here!</div><div><br></div><div>And finally not sure if there is someone on the mail list who is more familiar with the shortcuts. I am guessing there is a way to do what I want with the shortcuts.ini file but it is not well documented (what I know I pulled from manual, <a href="http://formal.korea.ac.kr/~jlee/lectures/cnce150/read/TeXworks-manual.pdf" target="_blank">http://formal.korea.ac.kr/~jle<wbr>e/lectures/cnce150/read/TeXwor<wbr>ks-manual.pdf</a>, Section A.2)</div><div><br></div></div><div class="m_-7782644562868708273m_421643302751871398m_-6307832222493427160HOEnZb"><div class="m_-7782644562868708273m_421643302751871398m_-6307832222493427160h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 7:28 PM, Mark Yagnatinsky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:markyag@gmail.com" target="_blank">markyag@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div dir="ltr"><div>First off, I never knew about shortcuts.ini before; this is a great feature and needs to be made more discoverable. I suggest, at a minimum, that a fresh TeXworks installation creates an empty shortcuts.ini file so that someone might wonder what it's for. Maybe someone should file a feature request. (Maybe me??)</div><div><br></div><div>Second, it seems a bit silly that the syntax for shortcuts in shortcuts.ini does not match the syntax for shortcuts for running scripts; surely those should be identical. Sounds like another feature request.</div><div><br></div><div>Third: in what world is "Alt + F + S" a familiar keyboard shortcut for saving a file!?! The only thing I'm aware of that comes even close is "Alt + F, S", which simply opens the file menu, and then selects the save option. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work in TeXworks, since it seems that none of the menus on the menu bar have an accelerator key defined, so Alt + F fails to open the file menu, and even if it did, "S" does not activate save. Yet another missing feature.</div><div><br></div><div>Finally, I'm no expert in the TeXworks scripting API, and have written precisely zero working scripts, but this seems to do what you need:</div><div><a href="http://twscript.paulanorman.info/docs/html/TexWorksQtScripting.html?save.html" target="_blank">http://twscript.paulanorman.in<wbr>fo/docs/html/TexWorksQtScripti<wbr>ng.html?save.html</a></div><div><span class="m_-7782644562868708273m_421643302751871398m_-6307832222493427160m_-5530048413330709733m_-3869926020280496228gmail-rvts8">In other words, the script is a one line: TW.target.save();</span></div><div><span class="m_-7782644562868708273m_421643302751871398m_-6307832222493427160m_-5530048413330709733m_-3869926020280496228gmail-rvts8">Disclaimer: I have not tried it. I personally just use Ctrl + S, to save.</span></div><div><span class="m_-7782644562868708273m_421643302751871398m_-6307832222493427160m_-5530048413330709733m_-3869926020280496228gmail-rvts8">(Actually, this is not true. What I actually do is Ctrl + T to typeset, and rely on the implicit save just before typesetting.)</span></div><div><span class="m_-7782644562868708273m_421643302751871398m_-6307832222493427160m_-5530048413330709733m_-3869926020280496228gmail-rvts8"><br></span></div><div><span class="m_-7782644562868708273m_421643302751871398m_-6307832222493427160m_-5530048413330709733m_-3869926020280496228gmail-rvts8">Hope some of this helps.</span></div><div><span class="m_-7782644562868708273m_421643302751871398m_-6307832222493427160m_-5530048413330709733m_-3869926020280496228gmail-rvts8">If not, ask again.</span></div></div><div class="m_-7782644562868708273m_421643302751871398m_-6307832222493427160m_-5530048413330709733HOEnZb"><div class="m_-7782644562868708273m_421643302751871398m_-6307832222493427160m_-5530048413330709733h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 12:28 AM, Z Br <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:breigzach@gmail.com" target="_blank">breigzach@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks Alain!</div><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately I am not much of a programmer and so I am unsure how to modify the script you posted to get the action I had asked about. Could you give a bit more direction, or if someone else knows if this is possible with the short cuts file that would be great too.</div><span class="m_-7782644562868708273m_421643302751871398m_-6307832222493427160m_-5530048413330709733m_-3869926020280496228HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>ZB</div></font></span></div><div class="m_-7782644562868708273m_421643302751871398m_-6307832222493427160m_-5530048413330709733m_-3869926020280496228HOEnZb"><div class="m_-7782644562868708273m_421643302751871398m_-6307832222493427160m_-5530048413330709733m_-3869926020280496228h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Alain Delmotte <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alain.delmotte@leliseron.org" target="_blank">alain.delmotte@leliseron.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid">
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<p><font face="Comic Sans MS">Hi,</font></p>
<p><font face="Comic Sans MS">I don't think that it is possible with
a shortcut*, but you could have a script to do that, like this
one:</font></p>
<p><font face="Comic Sans MS">==============================<wbr>==
chapter.lua<br>
--[[TeXworksScript<br>
Title: d: chapter \c&hapter<br>
Description: Encloses the current selection in \chapter{}<br>
Author: Alain Delmotte from Stefan Löffler & Jonathan Kew<br>
Version: 0.1<br>
Date: 2011-11-01<br>
Script-Type: standalone<br>
Context: TeXDocument<br>
Shortcut: Alt+W, Alt+&<br>
]]<br>
<br>
txt = TW.target.selection<br>
if (txt == nil) then txt = "" end<br>
TW.target.insertText("\\chapte<wbr>r{" .. txt .. "}")<br>
TW.target.selectRange(TW.targe<wbr>t.selectionStart - string.len(txt)
- 1, string.len(txt))<br>
============================</font></p>
<p><font face="Comic Sans MS">To create a \chapter{xyz} instruction
I type "xyz", select this and type Alt+W& (the key where is
"1", but on my belgian keyboard it has & as lower case). If
I selct nothing I just have \chapter{}.</font></p>
<p><font face="Comic Sans MS">You have to put the script file in the
scripts folder.<br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Comic Sans MS">Regards,</font></p>
<p><font face="Comic Sans MS">Alain</font><br>
</p>
* to be confirmed by the specialists<div><div class="m_-7782644562868708273m_421643302751871398m_-6307832222493427160m_-5530048413330709733m_-3869926020280496228m_-3308744716939970842h5"><br>
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<div>Hi:</div>
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<div>I am using a shortcuts.ini file to create some custom
shortcuts. I would like to have shortcuts which involve
multiple letters, e.g. the familiar Alt+F+S to save the file.
But when I include lines like this in shortcuts.ini,</div>
<div>actionSave = Alt+F+S</div>
<div>they do not work (literally nothing happens). Shortcuts
with just one letter like</div>
<div>actionSave = Alt+S</div>
<div>do work.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Is there a way to create shortcuts with multiple letters? </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Regards,</div>
<div>Zach<br>
</div>
<div><br>
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<div><br>
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<div>My setup:</div>
<div>Win7 Enterprise x64</div>
<div>TexWorks 0.6.1</div>
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