On 04/11/2018 01:37 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> On 04/11/2018 11:23 AM, Sasson Technoligies wrote:
>> hi all,
>>
>> I'm using LyX Version 2.2.3 Windows 10.
>> From some reason the keyboard shortcuts are not shown in the
>> different menus.
>> and i can see in screenshots and tutorial of other users that they
>> did appear in the menus.
>> i couldn't find any option in the preferences to show shortcuts in
>> the menus
>> and couldn't find any answer in the archive nor in the wiki docs.
>> hope you can help me with that
>> (it's grueling to google every shortcut)
>> thanks
>>
> Display of shortcuts in the menus is hit and miss at best. In LyX
> 2.3.0 (on Linux), I get shortcuts for most of the entries in the Edit
> menu but only one in the Insert menu.

I'm not sure many of the Insert entries have shortcuts (other than the
menu accellerators themselves).

> That said, if you're missing shortcuts for entries where other people
> see them, that's a bug.

It'd be nice to know if other Windows users see them.

> Meanwhile, I can suggest a partial workaround (that might let Google
> catch its breath). In LyX, click Tools > Preferences... > Editing >
> Shortcuts, which will display a list of the shortcuts defined in the
> bind file you are using. You can leave the dialog open while you are
> editing a document. The "Show key-bindings containing:" box will let
> you search either by key combination (enter "Ctrl + M", find out it's
> bound to math-mode, which starts an inline equation) or by function
> (enter "math-mode", find out the shortcut is "Ctrl+M"). The latter
> part is not entirely helpful if you don't know what the LyX name for
> the function is, but worst case you can enter a partial name for the
> function (say, "math") and get a list of possibilities. It won't
> necessarily keep you away from Google entirely, but it might help.

And note that you can look at Help> LyX Functions for a list of things
that might have shortcuts.

Riki

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