[texworks] A note on shortcuts and variables
Bruno Voisin
bvoisin at me.com
Mon Apr 13 14:40:16 CEST 2009
Le 13 avr. 09 à 11:06, Alain Delmotte a écrit :
> Rasmus Pank Roulund a écrit :
>>
>
>> I believe the widely use of ]/[ as a shortcut key is unwise. At
>> least on
>> Danish win and mac keyboards it is hard to come by (alt-gr + 8/9).
>> This
>> means that, in theory, you have to click Ctrl+Shift-Alt-gr 8/9 to
>> (un)indent. In practice it does not work, however.
>>
> yes, this is also a problem for the French keyboard; this is why I
> modified it in the French translation.
> But there where negative comments from Mac users (I think).
It may have been me, I don't remember exactly what's been said about
this.
In any case, the English shortcuts, namely
Indent Cmd-]
Unindent Cmd-[
Comment Cmd-Shift-]
Uncomment Cmd-Shift-[
can't work on a French Apple keyboard since the key combination for
[ and ] involve Shift already:
[ = Alt-Shift-(
] = Alt-Shift-)
{ = Alt-(
} = Alt-)
But the shortcuts in the translation, namely
Indent Cmd->
Unindent Cmd-<
Comment Cmd-(
Uncomment Cmd-)
create a problem on the Mac too, where Cmd-< is already an OS-wide
shortcut for rotating windows in the current application:
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And Cmd-( for Comment and Cmd-) for Uncomment are bit unfortunate too,
given in the English version Indent and Comment include closing signs
-- bracket, parenthesis, brace and the like -- while Unindent and
Uncomment include opening signs.
If inspiration has to be taken for the Mac from an Apple-designed text
editor, there's the editor in Xcode, Apple's IDE:
Shift Right Cmd-]
Shift Left Cmd-[
Align Right Cmd-}
Align Left Cmd-{
Mimicking this for Indent (= Shift) and employing similarly } for
Comment, one could propose for TeXworks
Indent Cmd-]
Unindent Cmd-[
Comment Cmd-}
Uncomment Cmd-{
But of course that's a Mac-centric view, which could conflict with
other shortcuts I'm not aware of.
In ay case, regarding hard-to-come-by shortcuts, it's not really a new
thing for TeX on the French Mac keyboard, where \ = Alt-Shift-: alas.
Bruno Voisin
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