On 30 Sep 2020, at 21:24, Bill Cole wrote:
My point is that 'cmd' and 'alt' are usually not the same key. Maybe a
picture of the left-side modifier keys (other than shift) of my old
MacBook explains what I mean better:
I never said they were or thought they were.
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Note that 'option' is also labeled 'alt' and 'command' is marked '⌘'
(an ancient artifact descended from the "Open Apple" key on Apple ][
keyboards) and on newer Mac US-English keyboards, option is marked
'⌥' to match the symbols used in menus.
But the problem is that Apple, in their infinite wisdom decided not to
label non-ascii keyboards with such key symbols. So, while it's less of
an issue for me as someone used to programming, other people will have
no idea where [], {}, etc. are.
The indentation menu commands are ⌘-[ and ⌘-] so on a keyboard
with a ⌘ (command/cmd) key and an alt (option/⌥) key where you
need alt-5 to get [, 'decrease indentation' would be ⌘-alt-5
Right. And this appears to be standard in other applications. For
whatever reason, however, I struggle to remember most of these keyboard
combinations, which is why if there is some kind of library that expands
such shortcuts to the current key-mapping.
But how am I supposed to enter ⌥-⌘-[ if I need to use ⌥ to get [ ?
Some keyboards have "Meta" or "Windows" keys that might get mapped to
⌘. Mapping BOTH ⌘ and ⌥ to a single 'alt' key would be
intrinsically broken, because they have always served distinct
purposes.
Will the alt key be recognized doubly, once to produce the bracket and
then to produce the shortcut? I gather he has to remap these shortcuts
to completely other keys.
No, see above.
It is essential that you have distinct mappings for the distinct
modifier keys.
I do have. But seeing as some of the shortcuts depend upon using the
same modifier twice, I think I'm just screwed.
I guess it would be the same for you if a shortcut required ⌥-⌘-ß!
Charlie
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