| keyboard mapping in nedit, on a Mac [message #71484] |
Wed, 23 June 2010 08:22 |
Mark Quigley
Messages: 8
Registered: August 2009
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This is a bit off topic so I apologize in advance but it might be of
interest to other IDL users.
I use nedit as my text editor, mainly for IDL, on a Mac. The keyboard
commands for copying, cutting, and pasting in nedit are ctrl-c, ctrl-
x, and ctrl-v, which is pretty standard, of course. My problem is that
the crtl key on my laptop has gotten really squirrely and these key
commands often don't work. Replacing the keyboard unit hasn't helped.
The people at the genius bar at the Apple store say it's some strange
software problem. Perhaps it is.....
Anyway, I came across what might be a fix for this. Putting the
following lines in my .Xdefaults file supposedly maps the cut, copy,
and paste functions to the ctrl-x,c,and v keys. I was hoping this
would help, but it doesn't....
nedit*editMenu.cut.accelerator:Ctrl<Key>x
nedit*editMenu.cut.acceleratorText:Ctrl+X
nedit*editMenu.copy.accelerator:Ctrl<Key>c
nedit*editMenu.copy.acceleratorText:Ctrl+C
nedit*editMenu.paste.accelerator:Ctrl<Key>v
nedit*editMenu.paste.acceleratorText:Ctrl+V
So then I thought I'd try the same thing with the command key. That
would work fine for me, not least of all because I broke my left
little finger a long time ago and it doesn't have much range of
motion, making the ctrl key a literal pain for me to use (I don't want
to permanently map the command key to the ctrl key as can be done by
changing the Preferences).
nedit*editMenu.cut.accelerator:Command<Key>x
nedit*editMenu.cut.acceleratorText:Command+X
nedit*editMenu.copy.accelerator:Command<Key>c
nedit*editMenu.copy.acceleratorText:Command+C
nedit*editMenu.paste.accelerator:Command<Key>v
nedit*editMenu.paste.acceleratorText:Command+V
However, when I start x-windows I get the error:
Unknown modifier name: Command
Does a Mac person anywhere have any ideas what the problem is? It
seems nedit doesn't recognize that the command key on a mac
exists.....
Thanks in advance,
Mark
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