New submission from Terry J. Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu>:
(Related to the more general macOS hotkey issue 18444.) 'Edit => Show completions' invokes pseudoevent <<force-open-completions>>. In all built-in keysets, the latter is bound to Control-space. This includes on macOS, as can be seen on the Settings Keys tab. On Windows, and I presume *nix, this is displayed on the menu as 'Cntl+space'. On macOS, the menu hotkeys are displayed differently than on other systems (how?). 'Cntl+' is condensed to '^', which is fine and which would be okay elsewhere. However, 'space' is condensed to 'S', which is a bug. Can this be fixed? If not, we could add ^S as an alternate hotkey on macOS. '^S' causes 'Edit' to flash, indicating, I believe, that it is recognized as an Edit menu hotkey. But nothing happens as IDLE/tk does not recognize it on macOS. (On Windows, it means 'save'.) ^space, currently works to show completions with 3.10.0b2. The same will be true after the PR for #40128 is merged and backported. The situation is the same for Edit => Show calltip, <<force-open-calltip>>, and control-backslash, except that 'backslash' is visible as '\'. If the hotkey were displayed on Windows as 'Cntl+\', perhaps the result on macOS would be the correct '^\'. ---------- assignee: terry.reedy components: IDLE, macOS messages: 395656 nosy: ned.deily, ronaldoussoren, taleinat, terry.reedy priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: IDLE: On macOS, cntl-space/backslash display as ^S/^B type: behavior versions: Python 3.11 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue44398> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
