Re: GUI keyboard shortcuts

[Thorsten Liebig]

Am 10.10.2013 22:20, schrieb Thorsten Liebig:
> Am 10.10.2013 22:07, schrieb John W. Eaton:
>> On 10/10/2013 03:43 PM, Thorsten Liebig wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> the release is close and I think it is now or never we should discuss
>>> the keyboard shortcuts for the Octave GUI.
>>>
>>> As I understand we want to try to get Matlab users to feel at home with
>>> the new Octave GUI and to me the proper keyboard-shortcuts would be
>>> important in that regard.
>>>
>>> Firstly, Matlab has a completely configurable list of shortcuts which
>>> would be nice to have as well, but maybe to complex for now?
>> That is also my goal for Octave, but I don't know how to do it.
My guess is you need to assign a QShortcut
(http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qshortcut.html) to any action instead
of the key-sequence directly and keep the shortcut object around to
change (or query) its key-sequence at any time. The connection to the
action should be unaffected...
But I may be wrong, I have never tries this...

>>
>>> Secondly it has some presets to choose, I will only refer to the one
>>> "Windows default set" and not the "Emacs default set" which is default
>>> on Linux.
>>>
>>> Here are my thoughts:
>>>
>>> "Comment/Uncomment":
>>> Octave: CTRL+7/8   no idea why these two, but I really have trouble
>>> using these with just one hand... and I hate to use both hands for a
>>> shortcut...
>>> Matlab uses CTRL+R/T  I like that much better, but maybe I'm just used
>>> to it...
>>>
>>> The problem is that it happens regularly to me that instead of a comment
>>> I run my script instead (and deleting my workspace...)
>>>
>>> "Run a script":
>>> Octave: CTRL+R  (conflicts with Matlabs comment shortcut)
>>> Matlab:  F5
>>> I find F5 much more intuitive, especially since it is continue in
>>> debugging mode as well...
>>>
>>> "Help on Selection":
>>> Octave: does not have this as a shortcut, only context menu entry
>>> Matlab: F1
>>> This is a really nice feature, just put your cursor on a function and
>>> hit F1 to get the help text! Having it in a overlay-windows like Matlab
>>> would be nice, but just executing "help<function>" in the command
>>> window would be good enough for now. Drawback, if a command is running,
>>> this will not react...
>>> Should be done easily since we already have it in the context menu?
>>>
>>> "Open Selection":
>>> Octave: does not have this
>>> Matlab: CTRL+D
>>> This is my favorite shortcut with Matlab especially if you work with
>>> lots of functions (as I usually do). Put your cursor on the function and
>>> press CTRL+D and the function opens as a new tab in the editor... Having
>>> this in the context menu as well and calling "edit<function>" would be
>>> nice. Drawback, if a command is running, this will not react...
>>>
>>> "Evaluate Selection":
>>> Octave: not available
>>> Matlab: F9
>>> Select some lines, press F9 and the selection will be evaluated, very
>>> useful, e.g. if you just play around with some lines for plotting...
>>>
>>> And I'm pretty sure there are a few more I'm missing...
>>>
>>> I'm looking forward to hear your opinions
>> Are you talking about the keyboard shortcuts for the editor or the
>> command window or something else?
>>
>> jwe
>>
> Sorry, I'm talking about the Editor.
>
> Thorsten
>