[Idle-dev] Re: keybindings

Tony Lownds tony@lownds.com
Mon, 2 Dec 2002 12:19:02 -0800


At 1:52 PM -0600 12/2/02, Nicholas Riley wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 02:09:45PM -0500, Kurt B. Kaiser wrote:
>>  How does Alt-H sound for Zoom across the three platforms?
>
>Command-H and command-option-H are taken by "hide application" and
>"hide others" on OS X, and Alt-/Option- equivalents are taken by
>character entry.  How about Alt/Command/Control (depending on
>platform)-T?
>
>Or else, there could just be no shortcut for zoom on the Mac.

Alt-H will turn into Option-H on the Mac. We can't change the default 
just for the Mac with the current code, nor can we have no shortcut 
just for the Mac - extensions' default key binding can't be overriden 
by platform. As you note, Option-H isn't perfect since it shadows the 
degree sign character keystroke. But users can get around this 
easily, so IMO Alt-H is ok.

Alt-X for check module is ok too IMO.

-Tony