Hi, First let me say I'm addicted to LyX for composing almost anything I care about. It helps keep me from fat fingering multiple spaces between words etc... And lets me set screen font sizes I can see without my reading glasses even when the targeted output font sizes are too small for my eyes WITH the glasses... The list goes on and on... Thanks!
However my problem with the spellchecker dialog's keybindings have More to do with my own dexterity issues that have always made using the mouse difficult at best. And with carpel tunnel issues that often make mouse based methods painful. {Don't know why I'm able to keyboard for hours before my hands go numb, but the mouse can do it in just a few minutes. But the result is I'm addicted to keyboard shortcuts and keyboard accessible menu based methods. When I use the spellchecker in LyX and the word I'm looking for is in the sUggestions list I'm very happy cause there is no conflict for the {alt}+{u} shortcut that lets me use the cursor keys to select it and {Enter} to apply the spelling correction. But if I need to tell it to ignore an instance where a character in a story is being quoted as saying something not in the dictionary lists {Think Homer Simpson saying "Doh"} That I may want to Ignore. Or perhaps I wanted to use an unusual word such as hisself instead of himself because it's "In character" for the character being quoted and wish to aDd it to my word list. And while I never use it, the same problem exists for the "Find next" button. Lately my problems with mouse operation have been getting worse: It can take me over a minute to maneuver the "dag nabbed" rodent pointing device over the correct "durned" button... And the button keybindings indicated by the underscored character on the button label (AKA: {alt}+{f}, {alt}+{i} and {alt}+{d}) instead activate the File, Insert or Document menu choices... {sigh} So I was hoping there was a way to selectively change the keybindings on those buttons to something that doesn't conflict with the menu bar bindings. I use the standard user interface with the cua bind file. I've looked in Tools > Preferences > shortcuts and the only spellchecker related shortcut I can find is the {F7} to start the spellchecking function {which I do NOT want to change} Even though more advanced methods {if any} of modifying LyX's keybindings are beyond my understanding, I've looked for clues in Help > LyX Functions, Help > Shortcuts without finding anything that looks like the add word or ignore word spellchecker button functions to me. I also did a less /usr/share/lyx/bind/cua.bind But I didn't see anything that looked like it there either. I probably should mention that I multi-boot three different Linux distros that share the same data partition with whichever version of LyX is in their repos. Only one of them is bleeding edge enough to have lyx 2.2.x The other 2 have LyX 2.1.x. And since one of the reasons I multi-boot is I've been known to to bork an installed Linux so bad that it can take me weeks to get X running again and it's such a pain to remember to lyx2lyx the updated *.lyx back to lyxformat 474 {while hoping I didn't accidentally use some new feature that doesn't convert back cleanly} THEN until either Mageia or Opensuse add LyX 2.2.x to their repos I'll avoid using LyX in my rolling release antiX installation in favor of the LyX 2.1.x installed to my Mageia Linux or my Opensuse Leap Linux installations. Usually Opensuse Leap where it's currently LyX 2.1.5... Is there a reliable way to "push" those buttons with the keyboard???????????????? I don't know if it matters but a LONG time ago I selected to run the spellchecker in the {docked?} sidebar instead of free floating because I need to actually see the context to for example notice if it's Homer saying "Doh" or an actual typo, and using the mouse to move the floating spellchecker dialog out of the way is even more difficult than getting the {expletive deleted} rodent to point at the button long enough for my hands to click on it... Thanks -- Joe Philbrook <jtw...@gmx.com> (:-0%