[texworks] Shortcuts and accelerators

[Jonathan Kew]

On 17 Apr 2010, at 21:28, Herbert Schulz wrote:

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> On Apr 17, 2010, at 3:05 PM, Bruno Voisin wrote:
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>> Usually the Save button is selected by default, so that pressing Return on the keyboard is a shortcut to clicking Save with the mouse. The Escape key is, as usual, a shortcut for clicking on Cancel. But there is not shortcut, to my knowledge, equivalent to clicking on Don't Save. Quite inconvenient to have to use the mouse just for that.

Yes, this has irritated me too! So now that you've brought it up, I figured out how I can add shortcuts to such alerts. In the source, I've just added Cmd-D for the Don't Save button; there may be a few other dialogs that could benefit from similar treatment, so feel free to make suggestions. (I also added a shortcut in the Revert dialog, though I don't suppose that's used nearly so often.)

The shortcuts can of course be modified by translators when they localize the interface.

Thanks,

JK

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>> One editor, BBEdit, goes further than this: it defines Cmd-key shortcuts to each item (the Mac version of the Windows' Ctrl-key), and when you press Cmd after the dialog pops up, the shortcuts are revealed: ...
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> It doesn't work with TeXworks but try Cmd-D at that dialog in TeXshop and other applications that use Apple's Frameworks.
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> Good Luck,
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> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
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