Shortcuts in the MC IDE

Klaus Major klaus at major-k.de
Fri Apr 10 12:33:04 CDT 2009


Hi Jacqueline,

> Klaus Major wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> while I am changing the IDE to support DataGrids and "reviving" the
>> disappeared shortcuts for debugging etc. in the Script Editor what  
>> about
>> adding some shortcuts to the menu?
>> Like:
>> CMD-N for "New Stack"
>> CMD-ALT-N for "Create Card"
>> CMD-ALT-BACKSPACE for "Celete card"
>> CMD-ALT-S for "Save as..."
>> CMD-ALT-R for "Revert"
>> CMD-ALT-I for "Import..."
>> CMD-ALT-P for the OS "Page setup..." dialog
>> Or is someone really still using the old MC page setup dialog?????
>> And whatever might come handy, proposals welcome!
>> Hey, we can have all these new shortcuts now in Rev >= 3 why not  
>> use them? :-)
>> Any objections?
>
> This is a wonderful idea. I only have one suggested change -- on  
> Macs, at least, some of the common commands (like "save as" and  
> variations on "new" anything, in this case, "new card") are  
> typically done with the shift key instead of option/alt key. Would  
> there be any issues with using Shift instead of Alt? My fingers are  
> hard-coded to the shift key after all these years.

No problems from my side!
Replace ALT with Shift, right?

Any other opinions?

> -- 
> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com

Best

Klaus

-- 
Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de





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