[texworks] shortcuts with multiple letters

[Z Br]

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.

I did a google search and a few years ago Alain seems to have discussed
this:
http://tug.org/pipermail/texworks/2013q2/005795.html
Item 1 discusses accelerators! Unfortunately the attachments have been
stripped off and I cannot find the directory mentioned there,
c:\users\<your_name>\TeXworks\translations

So Alain if you are reading this and still have those files, can you
re-post them?

Thanks again!
Zach

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 9:32 PM, Z Br <breigzach at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 :(
>
> And as an aside yes you are correct in what I am trying for: in Microsoft
> Windows, the standard key sequence for:
> saving files is Alt <and then> F <and then> S;
> or to undo what was just written is Alt <and then> E <and then> U
> 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!
>
> 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, http://formal.korea.ac.kr/~jlee/lectures/cnce150/read/
> TeXworks-manual.pdf, Section A.2)
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 7:28 PM, Mark Yagnatinsky <markyag at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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??)
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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:
>> http://twscript.paulanorman.info/docs/html/TexWorksQtScripti
>> ng.html?save.html
>> In other words, the script is a one line: TW.target.save();
>> Disclaimer: I have not tried it.  I personally just use Ctrl + S, to save.
>> (Actually, this is not true.  What I actually do is Ctrl + T to typeset,
>> and rely on the implicit save just before typesetting.)
>>
>> Hope some of this helps.
>> If not, ask again.
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 12:28 AM, Z Br <breigzach at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Alain!
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> ZB
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Alain Delmotte <
>>> alain.delmotte at leliseron.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I don't think that it is possible with a shortcut*, but you could have
>>>> a script to do that, like this one:
>>>>
>>>> ================================ chapter.lua
>>>> --[[TeXworksScript
>>>> Title: d: chapter \c&hapter
>>>> Description: Encloses the current selection in \chapter{}
>>>> Author: Alain Delmotte from Stefan Löffler & Jonathan Kew
>>>> Version: 0.1
>>>> Date: 2011-11-01
>>>> Script-Type: standalone
>>>> Context: TeXDocument
>>>> Shortcut: Alt+W, Alt+&
>>>> ]]
>>>>
>>>> txt = TW.target.selection
>>>> if (txt == nil) then txt = "" end
>>>> TW.target.insertText("\\chapter{" .. txt .. "}")
>>>> TW.target.selectRange(TW.target.selectionStart - string.len(txt) - 1,
>>>> string.len(txt))
>>>> ============================
>>>>
>>>> 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{}.
>>>>
>>>> You have to put the script file in the scripts folder.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Alain
>>>> * to be confirmed by the specialists
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Le 14/03/2017 à 14:15, Z Br a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> Hi:
>>>>
>>>> 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,
>>>> actionSave = Alt+F+S
>>>> they do not work (literally nothing happens). Shortcuts with just one
>>>> letter like
>>>> actionSave = Alt+S
>>>> do work.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to create shortcuts with multiple letters?
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Zach
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> My setup:
>>>> Win7 Enterprise x64
>>>> TexWorks 0.6.1
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>
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