Re: on keyboard shortcuts

2012-09-19 Thread Alex Zavatone
On Sep 19, 2012, at 11:09 AM, Fritz Anderson wrote: > On 19 Sep 2012, at 9:30 AM, Alex Zavatone wrote: > >> For example, in the bindings section of Preferences, there are cases where >> you will see command | (pipe or vertical bar) and command _ . >> >> What these really mean are command shif

Re: on keyboard shortcuts

2012-09-19 Thread Fritz Anderson
On 19 Sep 2012, at 9:30 AM, Alex Zavatone wrote: > For example, in the bindings section of Preferences, there are cases where > you will see command | (pipe or vertical bar) and command _ . > > What these really mean are command shift \ and command shift -, since shift > on the \ gives you the

Re: on keyboard shortcuts

2012-09-19 Thread Alex Zavatone
FYI, if you're interested in creating a GUI interface for the key bindings for the user, please do it better than how Xcode did it. In Xcode's Key Bindings GUI, the key bindings are not always represented in the form of all the modifier keys required for the command to be invoked. For example,

Re: on keyboard shortcuts

2012-09-19 Thread Martin Hewitson
Ken, thanks for your thoughts. That helps me a lot. You say that providing good keyboard shortcuts in the first place is the best approach, and that's what I think I did, at least for people using a US keyboard. It's hard to predict what others find comfortable and it certainly depends on the k

Re: on keyboard shortcuts

2012-09-19 Thread Ken Thomases
On Sep 19, 2012, at 2:23 AM, Martin Hewitson wrote: > I distribute a LaTeX typesetting and project manager app and one of the main > feature requests is the ability to assign keyboard shortcuts (or rather > modify the ones I ship). > But during my reading I also started to wonder if offering su

on keyboard shortcuts

2012-09-19 Thread Martin Hewitson
Dear List, I distribute a LaTeX typesetting and project manager app and one of the main feature requests is the ability to assign keyboard shortcuts (or rather modify the ones I ship). So I started researching a little how to do this and came across solutions involving PTHotKey (or DDHotKey) an