What are the common keyboard commands?

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Travis Griggs <[hidden email]> wrote:

On Oct 13, 2011, at 11:51 PM, Conrad Taylor wrote:

Hi, could someone tell me the standard keyboard commands using VW 7.8 March 2011?  For example, when I perform a right mouse click in the 'Workspace', I see the following:

Accept

ctrl-s

Format

ctrl-o (only in the browser, not in the workspace)

Insert Breakpoint

Insert Oneshot Breakpoint

Insert Probe

Edit Probe ...

Do it

ctrl-d

Print it

ctrl-p

Inspect it

ctrl-q (think "query")

Debug it

ctrl-b (think "break")

Explain

Cut

ctrl/apple-x

Copy

ctrl/apple-c

Paste

ctrl/apple-v

Find…

ctrl-f (ctrl-g find's the last find again)

Replace

ctrl-r

Cancel

Thus, I was wondering, if there are associated keyboard commands for invoking at least the ones in bold?  If so, should this association be specified next to the corresponding menu command?

Ctrl-z is undo. In VW whatever-comes-after-7.8, ctrl-z actually does infinite buffered undo. It only took us how many years?

In standard code editing text editors, there are some additional handy ones:

* ctrl-shift-r repeats the last replacement. If you highlight some text and then type some next over it, and then hit ctrl-shift-r it will find the next occurrence of what you just replaced and do the replace there

* ctrl-shift-f inserts ifFalse:

* ctrl-shift-t inserts ifTrue:

* ctrl-; inserts the "gets" := pattern (on windows it's alt-g)

* if you highlight a chunk of text  and then hit esc followed by anyone of [, (, {, <, ', ", it will enclose the selection in those, unless it already is, in which case it will toggle them off

* ctrl-shift-v does "extended" paste, meaning it presents you with a list of the last 5 things in the copy buffer which you can pick from

It's not conventions to put short cut accelerators next to context specific menus. However when those menu items show up in the window menubar, it *is*. I believe you'll find most of them there. And if not, we probably need to fix them.

HTH

--

Travis Griggs

Objologist

I multiply all time estimates by pi, to account for running around in circles.

Travis, thanks for the information and I appreciate it.  Anyway, when these commands are available, they appear in different places:

browser      ->  Edit menu item

workspace ->   Smalltalk menu item

Also, within the browser under the 'Edit' menu item I see a 'Find' option which is rather confusing when there's a 'Find' menu item.

-Conrad

 

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