On 15.03.2010, at 12:50, Kino wrote:

> On Mar 15, 2010, at 3:12 AM, Þorvarður Davíðsson wrote:
>
>> I have noticed that certain key combinations cannot be used as  
>> menu keys in NWP. I wanted to use Option+Command+C for “Copy  
>> Character Attributes” in the Edit menu and Option+Command+V for  
>> “Paste Character Attributes”, but that did not work. Then I  
>> changed the menu keys to Control+Command+C and Control+Command+V  
>> respectively and everything was fine. As far as I can see there is  
>> no collision with other programs or Keyboard Shortcuts in the  
>> System Preferences, so I wonder why NWP refuses to accept Option 
>> +Command+C.
>
> As Brian pointed it out, command-option-c and command-option-v are  
> NWP's default shortcut keys for those commands. Hopefully clearing  
> the current shortcuts will get them back.


I tried this now once again, it worked the first two times I pressed  
the keys and then not anymore. Maybe it is my old, black keyboard  
that is playing this trick on me. Anyway, as I said, when I use  
Control+Command+C and Control+Command+V respectively everything is fine.


>
>> Is there any way to make NWP accept key combinations WITHOUT using  
>> the command key?


>
> You can set any key combinations by defining them as  
> NSUserKeyEquivalents in com.nisus.NisusWriter.plist. For that, you  
> can edit the file with Property List Editor (a component of  
> Developer Tools) or by a Terminal command. With some limitations,  
> you can use also the Keyboard Shortcuts tab of Keyboard [& Mouse]  
> System Preferences to define them.

Are there any step by step instructions available for this task? — I  
miss the way this was implemented in Nisus Classic. So many key  
combinations are already taken now by me that I'm finding it  
difficult to come up with new once if I have to press the Command key  
all the time. :-)


Þorvarður