Re: Issue 1042 in pharo: documentation/help menu

Comment #3 on issue 1042 by tony.fleig: documentation/help menu
http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=1042

There is indeed a Help item in the World menu, but it does not lead to  
anywhere that shortcut keys are listed.

The original issue, i.e. that the list of shortcut keys is nowhere  
available has not been addressed. I think this issue should be re-opened.

I agree wholeheartedly that this list is of immense value to newcomers to  
the system and should be available and easy to find.

Updates:
        Status: Accepted
        Labels: Milestone-1.3

Comment #4 on issue 1042 by marianopeck: documentation/help menu
http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=1042

Tony, I agree. But there is something that should be done: test all of them  
and see which are still working, which are not, which have changed, etc.

Do you volunteer for this?

Comment #5 on issue 1042 by tony.fleig: documentation/help menu
http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=1042

Ok. I will take the list below and for each shortcut determine whether it  
is working in Pharo 1.1.1 in Windows 7, OSX Snow Leopard, and Ubuntu Linux  
9.10. I then post the results as a comment to this issue. I will attempt to  
do this by close of business tomorrow Pacific Time.

FWIW, IMHO a list of maybe-working shortcuts with a warning that not all  
may be working is very much better than no list at all. (I speak from  
recent experience.) If we wait for perfection in all things we will never  
achieve anything.

Here is the list I will work from. (I do not know what "Recognizer" refers  
to. The shortcut does nothing in my Ubuntu 9.10 Pharo 1.1 environment.  
Maybe you can help me there?)

I have casually tested most of them in Pharo 1.1 Ubuntu Linux 9.10 and the  
majority seem to be fully functional.

Lower-case command keys
(use with Cmd key on Mac and Alt key on other platforms)
a    Select all
b    Browse it (selection is a class name or cursor is over a class-list or
message-list)
c    Copy selection
d    Do it (selection is a valid expression)
e    Exchange selection with prior selection
f    Find
g    Find again
h    Set selection as search string for find again
i    Inspect it (selection is a valid expression, or selection is over an
inspect-ilst)
j    Again once (do the last text-related operation again)
k    Set font
l    Cancel
m    Implementors of it (selection is a message selector or cursor is over a
class-list or message-list)
n    Senders of it (selection is a message selector or cursor is over a
class-list or message-list)
o    Spawn current method
p    Print it (selection is a valid expression)
q    Query symbol (toggle all possible completion for a given prefix)
r    Recognizer
s    Save (i.e. accept)
t    Finds a Transcript (when cursor is over the desktop)
u    Toggle alignment
v    Paste
w    Delete preceding word (over text);  Close-window (over morphic desktop)
x    Cut selection
y    Swap characters
z    Undo

Note: for Do it, Senders of it, etc., a null selection will be expanded to a
word or to the current line in an attempt to do what you want.  Also note
that Senders/Implementors of it will find the outermost keyword selector in
a large selection, as when you have selected a bracketed expression or an
entire line.  Finally note that the same cmd-m and cmd-n (and cmd-v for
versions) work in the message pane of most browsers.

Upper-case command keys
     (use with Shift-Cmd, or Ctrl on Mac
     or Shift-Alt on other platforms; sometimes Ctrl works too)
A    Advance argument
B    Browse it in this same browser (in System browsers only)
C    Compare argument to clipboard
D    Duplicate
E    Method strings containing it
F    Insert 'ifFalse:'
G    fileIn from it (a file name)
H    cursor TopHome:
I    Inspect via Object Explorer
J    Again many (apply the previous text command repeatedly until the end of
the text)
K    Set style
L    Outdent (move selection one tab-stop left)
M    Select current type-in
N    References to it (selection is a class name, or cursor is over a
class-list or message-list)
O    Open single-message browser (in message lists)
P    Make project link
R    Indent (move selection one tab-stap right)
S    Search
T    Insert 'ifTrue:'
U    Convert linefeeds to carriage returns in selection
V    Paste author's initials
W    Selectors containing it (in text); show-world-menu (when issued with
cursor over desktop)
X    Force selection to lowercase
Y    Force selection to uppercase
Z    Capitalize all words in selection

Other special keys
Backspace    Backward delete character
Del            Forward delete character
Shift-Bksp    Backward delete word
Shift-Del    Forward delete word
Esc            Pop up the Desktop Menu
\            Send top window to back

Cursor keys
left, right,
up, down    Move cursor left, right, up or down
Ctrl-left        Move cursor left one word
Ctrl-right    Move cursor right one word
Home        Move cursor to begin of line or begin of text
End            Move cursor to end of line or end of text
PgUp, Ctrl-up    Move cursor up one page
PgDown, Ctrl-Dn    Move cursor down one page

Note all these keys can be used together with Shift to define or enlarge the
selection. You cannot however shrink that selection again, as in some other
systems.

Other Cmd-key combinations (not available on all platforms)
Return        Insert return followed by as many tabs as the previous line
             (with a further adjustment for additional brackets in that line)
Space        Select the current word as with double clicking

Enclose the selection in a kind of bracket.  Each is a toggle.
     (not available on all platforms)
Ctrl-(    Enclose within ( and ), or remove enclosing ( and )
Ctrl-[    Enclose within [ and ], or remove enclosing [ and ]
Crtl-{    Enclose within { and }, or remove enclosing { and }
Ctrl-<    Enclose within < and >, or remove enclosing < and >
Ctrl-'    Enclose within ' and ', or remove enclosing ' and '
Ctrl-""    Enclose within "" and "", or remove enclosing "" and ""
Note also that you can double-click just inside any of the above delimiters,
or at the beginning or end of a line, to select the text enclosed.

Text Emphasis
     (not available on all platforms)
Cmd-1    10 point font
Cmd-2    12 point font
Cmd-3    18 point font
Cmd-4    24 point font
Cmd-5    36 point font
Cmd-6    color, action-on-click, link to class comment, link to method, url
         Brings up a menu.  To remove these properties, select
         more than the active part and then use command-0.
Cmd-7    bold
Cmd-8    italic
Cmd-9    narrow (same as negative kern)
Cmd-0    plain text (resets all emphasis)
Cmd--    underlined (toggles it)
Cmd-=    struck out (toggles it)

Shift-Cmd--    (aka :=) negative kern (letters 1 pixel closer)
Shift-Cmd-+    positive kern (letters 1 pixel larger spread)

Comment #6 on issue 1042 by marianopeck: documentation/help menu
http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=1042

Tony, one of your frases is the Pharo philosofy: "If we wait for perfection  
in all things we will never achieve anything. ". EXACTLY.
We really appreacite your work. Go ahead, give it a first shoot, and then  
we can integrate it. After....we can improve it.

Comment #7 on issue 1042 by stephane.ducasse: documentation/help menu
http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=1042

Yes
what we can also do is to use a kind of settings to describe keybinding but  
we will do that latter. We already discussed with lain about that.