short cut keys in Squeak environment

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Sun Oct 26 13:27:55 UTC 2003


Martin Wirblat wrote:

> Why not? I like it, surprise :). Especially the fact that more common 
> shortcuts like p, d, q and to a lesser extent i, m, n, b are on what I 
> call the main modifier key. This way one can use an easier to remember 
> subset with only one modifier. I like too, that the help text gives a 
> little prefix which describes the most wanted shortcuts, and that it 
> accommodates somewhat to the different settings. 
> 
> However there are some problems, mainly the result of things getting 
> somewhat complicated with such 'unlinear' preferences. 
> 
> - For no swapping or duplicating Utilities>>commandKeyMappings comes 
> up with an error 
> 
> - For swap-all the second ( big ) part of the keyhelp shows the same 
> modifiers. "sometimes Ctrl works too" instead of Alt 
> 
> - Here is a puzzling one: For swap-all ctrl-n will bring up senders, 
> but ctrl-m does not work for implementors, neither does any other 
> modifier combination. I vaguely remember that I had some similar 
> effect when expanding the group of swapped keys to more than the 8 
> default ones. 

Ctrl-M is Enter.

> For now I think this should go into 3.7. 

I don't.

 > If we had in the future a
> more sophisticated configtool for keybindings I guess I would prefer 
> this: real editing shortcuts on the main modifier, browser starting 
> ones on the second one. 
> 
> regards,
> Martin
> 
> 
> 





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