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| = DevFaqLogicalKeybindings |
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| :keywords: Apache NetBeans wiki DevFaqLogicalKeybindings |
| :description: Apache NetBeans wiki DevFaqLogicalKeybindings |
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| === Why should I use D- for Ctrl and O- for Alt - I thought C stood for Ctrl and A stood for alt? |
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| (Wondering what this is about? See the link:DevFaqKeybindings.asciidoc[general FAQ item on keybindings]). |
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| There should be *no* Alt-bound keyboard shortcuts on Macintosh, _ever_ - it is used on international keyboards as the compose key (for a long time, we didn't know it, but Norwegian and French users could not type } or { in NetBeans - kind of limits the usefuless of a Java IDE). |
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| All standard shortcuts should be bound with wildcard keys - e.g., in the layer, not AS-P for Alt-Shift-P, but OS-P, which will map to Alt-Shift-P on PC and Ctrl-Shift-P on mac. For Ctrl/Command, in the layer put DS-P instead of CS-P to bind conditionally to ctrl on PC and command on mac. |
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| All Alt-bound keybindings in the IDE are specified with O so that they are rebound to Ctrl on mac, because they will interfere with typing in a lot of locales (the real way to think about it is "the mac does not have an Alt key" - it does but it is a composition key - you can't use it). |
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| Any alt-bound keybinding on mac is a bug. If you use the logical syntax for keybindings, your app will always work intuitively on any platform. |
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| Note that the mapping handling does skip key combinations that simply can't work on Mac - for example, Command-H and Command-Q are always consumed by the OS, so D-H and D-Q map to Ctrl-H and Ctrl-Q, respectively, everywhere. |
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| === Apache Migration Information |
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| This page was exported from link:http://wiki.netbeans.org/DevFaqLogicalKeybindings[http://wiki.netbeans.org/DevFaqLogicalKeybindings] , |
| that was last modified by NetBeans user Tboudreau |
| on 2010-02-24T21:17:52Z. |
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| *NOTE:* This document was automatically converted to the AsciiDoc format on 2018-02-07, and needs to be reviewed. |
