In Linux, it used to be, I could type Control in lieu of Shift+Alt.
For example, I used to type Control+( to surround with parentheses.
Control+[ to surround with curly-braces {}.

Now I have to type Alt+Shift+( and Alt+Shift+[ for those.

Is there any way to get the Control+( back?

 - Chris

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 3:15 AM, Nicolas Cellier
<nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm typing this message on a mac French keyboard.
> That means I can obtain the holy brackets [ | ] only through weird
> keystroke combinations
> | = shit+option+L
> [ = shift+option+( where shift+5 is (
>
> Enclosing a text in square brackets would require some finger torture
> both in Squeak/Pharo
> shift+option+command+(
> But this does not work because of #shiftEnclose: rules encountered in
> #initializeShiftCmdKeyShortcuts
> (found both ParagraphEditor class and TextEditor class)
>
>        "Note: Command key overrides shift key, so, for example, cmd-shift-9
> produces $9 not $("
>        '9[,''' do: [ :char | cmdMap at: (char asciiValue + 1) put:
> #shiftEnclose: ].       "({< and double-quote"
>        "Note: Must use cmd-9 or ctrl-9 to get '()' since cmd-shift-9 is a
> Mac FKey command."
>
> shiftEnclose: is badly designed because it does hardcode the keyboard
> layout (see below).
> This is not compatible with modern VMs, at least the mac ones, because
> they deliver a unicode codePoint for $[ or $|, not a raw keycode.
> It's easy to remove this anachronism and correct the mapping:
>
>        "On some keyboards, these characters require a shift"
>        '([<{|"''' do: [:char | cmdMap at: char asciiValue + 1 put: #enclose:].
>
> To avoid pushing a mac-centric change in trunk, I need to know if the
> Linux/Windows VM would support above modification.
> Can anyone check for me ?
>
> Nicolas
>
>
>
>
>
> Example of hardcoded keyboard layout:
> TextEditor>>shiftEnclose: aKeyboardEvent
>        "Insert or remove bracket characters around the current selection.
>         Flushes typeahead."
>
>        | char left right startIndex stopIndex oldSelection which text |
>        char := aKeyboardEvent keyCharacter.
>        char = $9 ifTrue: [ char := $( ].
>        char = $, ifTrue: [ char := $< ].
>        char = $[ ifTrue: [ char := ${ ].
>        char = $' ifTrue: [ char := $" ].
>        char asciiValue = 27 ifTrue: [ char := ${ ].    "ctrl-["
> snip...
>
>