[Geany] tuning Geany key combos

[Enrico Tröger]

On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:54:15 +0100, Nick Treleaven
<nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:

> On 07/05/2007 05:04:56 PM, Enrico Tröger wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 20:20:45 -0400, "John Gabriele"
> > <jmg3000 at gmail.com>
> > > Also, since now Ctrl-G would be freed up, even though I know you
> > > prefer F3 for "find again" (and Shift-F3 for "find previous"),
> > > it's pretty standard to use Ctrl-G and Shift-Ctrl-G for that (Mac
> > > OS X, KDE, and Gnome). MS Windows is the only one who uses F3 for
> > > it. And Ctrl-G really is easier to hit than an F_key without
> > > looking away
> > from
> > > the keyboard. Shift-F3 is even harder to hit. :) {ducks}
> > Hmm, it really seems to be more default to have Ctrl-(Shift-)G for
> > Find
> > Next/Previous. I didn't know that and until now only saw
> > F3/Shift-F3. We could change it if Nick will agree.
> > 
> Well I prefer F3, but if ctrl-g is more widely known among *nix
> users, I don't mind if it's changed.
I prefer F3 too but I think in this case we should change it.

> > > As long as we're looking at the Gnome HIG and the CUA standards,
> > > it looks like most apps use Ctrl-D instead of Ctrl-M to deal with
> > > bookmarks. I think Ctrl-M is usually reserved for hopping between
> > > *m*atching bracket characters (parentheses, brackets, braces,
> > > angle brackets). If you went with that, you could possibly switch
> > > "Duplicate" to Shift-Alt-C (for *c*opy). This seems reasonable to
> > me,
> > > since it's probably much more common to toggle bookmarks and
> > > toggle between matching brackets than duplicating selected text.
> > Oh please not. Switching between matching braces is nice but at
> > least I
> > use it very rare. But I use duplicating lines/selection very very
> > often
> > and I assume I get pain in my fingers if we change Duplicate to
> > Shift-Alt-C ;-).
> > 
> I tend to use duplicate about the same as the other commands
> mentioned, and I prefer Ctrl-D. I would argue that markers are
> different from browser-like bookmarks, but maybe I'm being pedantic.
I agree. Keep Ctrl-D for Duplicate and Ctrl-M for toggling markers.


Regards,
Enrico

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