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Re: Arcane keybindings for Nisus
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Kino <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:50:03 +0900
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On Mar 15, 2010, at 3:12 AM, Žorvaršur Davķšsson 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.

> 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.

IMO, all shortcut keys for menu commands should be command based, though. In the past, I trashed an application for the sole reason that it assigns control based shortcuts to menu commands. What to say? That is an infringement of Unix keybinding custom. For the same reason, I hate Windows.


Kino

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