[Idle-dev] Re: keybindings

[Nicholas Riley]

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 12:19:02PM -0800, Tony Lownds wrote:
> 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.

Sounds like this really needs changing.  How hard would it be to do?

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  Medical Scholars Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign