On 02/24/2018 03:11 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Feb 2018, King Beowulf wrote:
> 
>> You don't need a macro to do this (Sorry, Richard E.). In writer, go to
>> Tools -> Customize, Keyboard tab. In the Window that pops up, select
>> "Edit" in the Category list and "Backspace" in the Function list. The
>> Keys
>> list will now show the key currently assigned. In the upper Shortcut keys
>> box, scroll down and select CTRL-D. On the right select the botton,
>> LibreOffice, for global, or Writer. The click "Modify" and the Keys box
>> should now show both Backspace and Ctrl-D
> 
> Ed,
> 
>   Backspace removes the character to the left of the cursor position,
> delete
> removes the one to the right. At the end of a partially-filled line the
> delete key will remove the \n and join the following line while the
> backspace key will move the cursor to the end of the last word on that
> line.
> 
>   And, when I tried to assign the macro to CTRL+D, LO crashed. Every time.
> Feh!
> 
>   Anywho, since I use only Writer and Calc when receiving/sending stuff to
> clients and agencies, and I already have gnumeric installed, I just built
> and installed the SBo version of Abiword. It does support inport/export of
> .doc/.docx and that's the only reason for my use of a word processor.
> 
>   I used Abiword in the mid-1990s before buying and using WordPerfect/Linux
> (since I'd used that in DOS since 1984). That died in 2000 and I
> switched to
> OO.o, then LO. Now I'll remove LO and use the individual tools.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Rich

I always had a right-left glitch, so there's that, but the same LO
procedure can reassign DEL to Ctrl-D without crashing as its a general
instrunction. I was never a big fan of macros.  Pretty much any office
suite allows you to reassign keyboard shortcuts willy-nilly.  It's just
a matter of finding the menu!

If its fixed with abiword that's good too.  More than one way to cook an
egg after all in the F/OSS world!

-Ed


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