On 18 Aug 2007, at 5:42 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > > On Aug 17, 2007, at 18:04, Peter Cowan wrote: > >> On 8/17/07, Adam R. Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Beware that WoS bookmarks are broken in 1.3.7, but fixed in the >>> last nightly build. If you try using them in 1.3.7 the search will >>> never return (PubMed and z39.50 are unaffected by this). It sounds >>> like you really just want a keyboard shortcut for the WoS >>> bookmark? There's really not that much difference between clicking >>> an empty search group and selecting the menu item, as far as I can >>> see, so keeping search groups in the source list doesn't seem like >>> much of a win. >> >> If I understand correctly you don't want to store them in the bib >> file? I wouldn't mind having it in a general preference file, thus >> showing up in all databases. However, that might lead to a confusing >> experience for other users. > > Yeah, that's why we went with a menu solution; it didn't seem like > those searches were really part of a document, and it would be > confusing to have them show up per-document. > >> I agree that it doesn't seem that >> different that selecting something from a menu, I just don't like >> using menus much. >> >> A shortcut will be fine for me so I tried using the system >> preferences >> to set the WOS menu item to control-W. This appears to work, the >> shortcut shows up in the menu. However, while selecting the item >> from >> the menu works as expected, the key command just beeps at me. Any >> suggestions? I'm using the nightly from the 17th. > > Sadly, this appears to be an Apple bug; it doesn't work for me either > (on Tiger). I'm not sure if there's a workaround for this, either. > > -- > Adam
No, this is not a bug. You need to use a Command in any custom shortcut. Otherwise the system would get too slow checking any key you press everywhere it could possibly be defined. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
