Alternate key commands in LC ????

[Richmond Mathewson]

As  I use computers running Linux and MacOS, my Macs are set up so the
roles of the CMD and CTRL keys are reversed.

It will be interesting to see if it affects these alternate key commands
with the IDE.

On Tue, 19 Sept 2023, 23:42 Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode, <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Reading this article about the MacOS copy and paste:
> https://tidbits.com/2016/06/11/os-x-hidden-treasures-copy-and-paste/
>
> It mentions the (secret) OS X alternate clipboard — kill and yank — that
> uses control-K to kill (cut) and control-Y to yank (paste) in some MacOS
> apps. Comes from the Emacs text editor (that was a loooong time ago).
>
> I tried it in an LC field and discovered some unknowns-to-me:
>
> Control-K does kill (cut) selected text
> Control-Y does not seem to do anything—does not yank (paste)
>   (I haven’t yet figured out how to yank-paste killed-cut text)
> Control-K without a selection but the cursor placed within a line of text
> kills (cuts) all the text after the cursor/insertion point
>
> Put the cursor somewhere within a line/paragraph of text and Control-A
> moves the cursor to the beginning of the paragraph
> Control-E moves the cursor to the end of the paragraph
> Control-F moves the cursor one character to the right
>
> Control-O does a weird thing of adding a carriage return after the cursor
> and simultaneously moves the cursor to the left one character, so you can
> easily end up with something like:
>
> c
> h
> a
> r
> a
> c
> t
> e
> r
>
> Maybe there’s more? Windows?
>
> Peter Bogdanoff
>
>
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