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Next and Previous View Keyboard Shortcuts Conflict with Text Selection Shortcuts

#59

This is an issue Safari had a while ago. The keyboard shortcuts for changing tabs/views, cmd+shift+left and cmd+shift+right, conflict with the text-selection shortcuts to select text from the insertion point to the beginning or end of a line. Safari has since changed its shortcuts to cmd+shift+[ and cmd+shift+] to avoid the issue.

I ran into this while editing a description cell in the account view. Instead of selecting the text between the insertion point and the beginning of the line, as I expected, my edit was committed, and the view switched to the transactions view. Text selection shortcuts work as expected when the corresponding view changing shortcut is not available.

Reported by Randy Becker · August 22nd, 2009 @ 04:03 AM

State: fixed
Milestone: v1.6.2
Assigned to: Virgil Dupras Virgil Dupras

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  1. Virgil Dupras
    Virgil Dupras
    • Milestone set to v1.6

    Yeah, I've been bitten by this as well.

    August 22nd, 2009 @ 10:43 AM

  2. Virgil Dupras
    Virgil Dupras
    • State changed from new to open
    • Assigned user set to Virgil Dupras

    August 27th, 2009 @ 01:43 PM

  3. Virgil Dupras
    Virgil Dupras
    • State changed from open to fixed

    (from [86]) [#59 state:fixed] Changed the arrow based shortcuts to [] based shortcuts.

    August 27th, 2009 @ 02:17 PM

  4. Virgil Dupras
    Virgil Dupras

    I wonder how people with non-US keyboards (which instead of having brackets in the right side of the keyboard, have accents and stuff) work with keyboard shortcuts. I tried switching to a french keyboard, and the shortcut, of course, wouldn't work.

    However, Safari has the same problem, so I guess all apps have the same problem. Does it mean all people with non-US keyboards mainly use the mouse?

    August 27th, 2009 @ 02:21 PM

  5. Randy Becker
    Randy Becker

    I haven't updated to Snow Leopard yet, but will soon. It sounds like Apple may have ("fixed")[http://hivelogic.com/articles/fix-broken-textmate-command-arrow-key...] this bug.

    August 30th, 2009 @ 02:05 AM

  6. Randy Becker
    Randy Becker

    To actually answer your question, the keyboard shortcut listed in the Window menu changes to ctrl-tab and crtl-shift-tab when the keyboard layout is set to French. These both work with the US keyboard too, but they aren't listed in the menu.

    August 30th, 2009 @ 04:43 AM

  7. Virgil Dupras
    Virgil Dupras
    • State changed from fixed to open
    • Milestone cleared.

    I have to keep the arrow shortcuts around, after all. It really is a problem for foreign keyboards setup.

    My first though would be to add some code on keyDown: of the main window which would check for arrow shorcut. I think that by having it there instead of the Main Menu, it would not conflict with the text shortcuts.

    August 31st, 2009 @ 04:26 PM

  8. Virgil Dupras
    Virgil Dupras
    • State changed from open to accepted

    September 5th, 2009 @ 07:06 PM

  9. Virgil Dupras
    Virgil Dupras
    • Milestone set to v1.6.2

    [milestone:id#49656 bulk edit command]

    September 8th, 2009 @ 09:45 AM

  10. Virgil Dupras
    Virgil Dupras
    • State changed from accepted to fixed

    (from [114]) [#59 state:fixed] Added manual shortcuts to re-instate the old arrow based shortcuts (and these don't interfere with text based shortcuts!).

    September 8th, 2009 @ 03:34 PM

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