Stephan Witt <st.w...@gmx.net> writes:

> Am 06.08.2013 um 15:04 schrieb Rainer M Krug <rai...@krugs.de>:
>
>> Hi
>> 
>> I recently switched from Linux to OS X.
>> 
>> One thing I haven't figured out is how I can easily access the menu
>> items easily via keyboard shortcut.
>> 
>> Under Linux, I did CTRL-I -- N - N to insert a Lyx note. Under OS X
>> (Mountain Lion) I have to use several keyboard shortcuts and navigate
>> with the cursor keys to open the Insert menu and I insert charactars i
>> the text:
>> 
>> -  CRTL-F2 gives focus to the Meu Bar
>> -  i navigates to the Insert menu, but does not open it AND inserts an "i"
>> in the document.
>> -  Cursor Down opens the menu
>> -  and so on.
>> 
>> Am I missing something here (I hope so)?
>
> No, out of the box these shortcuts don't work, IMHO.
> Fortunately you may define them 1:1 yourself.
>
> I did it for note-insert - using the Preference editor, the user bind file is 
> attached.
> This file resides in "$HOME/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.0"
>
> For 2.1 I'd think it's a good idea to add the insert menu commands
> at least to the set of known shortcuts. I'll do this later. It's
> a little bit work - one has to do it for different languages.

Thanks - looking forward to this,

Rainer

>
> Stephan
>
>
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