On 2010-09-04, Wendell Smith wrote:

> I have been using LyX for a while now, and very much enjoying it, but I 
> would really love to be able to set different key bindings for math mode 
> and non-math mode. My main reason for this is that in math mode, I have 
> to use the Ctrl, Meta, and Shift keys so much that its starting to hurt 
> my fingers, and I would like to have keybindings without modifiers 
> (except maybe Shift for capitals) - so insert x would be 'v x' instead 
> of just 'x', integral would be 'i', etc. Obviously, in text mode this 
> would be very irritating, but in math mode, I think I would find it very 
> convenient. Could that be done? Is there some way to automatically 
> switch keybindings upon entering/leaving math mode?

Separate math keybindings are a long standing request (by me) but
unfortunately not regarded as very important.

There is the "command-alternative" construct, however, that allows you
to bind math-functions to keys that would otherwise be invalid in math
mode.

Günter


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