[squeak-dev] Merge Request: autoEncloseBeforeSpace.cs

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Thu Dec 23 20:08:29 UTC 2021


I think you're adding a lot of evidence to support the need for a proper keyboard configuration tool/pref. Sadly it's almost certainly too late to make one for this release.

> On 2021-12-23, at 3:05 AM, Jakob Reschke <jakres+squeak at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Am Do., 23. Dez. 2021 um 01:44 Uhr schrieb tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org>:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Just a remark: out of the box, Cmd-[ is not accessible on a German
>>> Windows-type quertz keyboard because we have to use Alt Gr (which is
>>> equivalent to Ctrl+Alt) + 8 to type [ in the first place, so all
>>> modifiers that could possibly map to Cmd are already held down. Same
>>> issue with curly braces.
>> 
>> Good grief; that's awful! But see previous comments about not using Windows....
>> 
> 
> To be fair, it would be the same on Linux. Until I activate my power
> user genes and do something about the keyboard input handling, which I
> can also do on Windows. I just don't want to, only to support one
> program's shortcut that I can even live without thanks to enclose
> selection. ;-)
> 
> 


tim
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