[texworks] A note on shortcuts and variables

[Alain Delmotte]

Hi Bruno,

Yes, I think it was you who commented.

Bruno Voisin a écrit :
> 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-)
Under Windows we get []{}\| with AltGr+anotherkey; AltGr is equivalent 
to Alt+Ctrl, so Ctrl+] is impossible.
> 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:
I did choose > and < for indent because this is "showing the direction".
What about Ctrl+: and Ctrl+Shift+: (Cmd+: and Cmd+Shift+: on the mac)??
>
> 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.
>
I didn't see the direction of the English shortcuts (once it was 
impossible, I didn't look at them anymore :-) ); but I find Ctrl+( for 
commenting more logic because when you start a comment in a sentence you 
"open bracket"!!
>
> 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.
>
Not only Mac centric but impossible under Windows (and perhaps Linux?) 
as said above.

I'll test the possibility to design own system as discussed earlier.

Alain