Re: Keyboard shortcuts not working as expected
On 08/29/2018 07:32 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 29 Aug 2018, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I just tested at my end. Alt+C down turns the word to lower case. Highlighting a portion and typing "word-lowcase partial" in the command buffer does what you were trying to do (turns the selection to lower case). So, bottom line, it should work on your system, unless the shortcut got redefined. Paul, I'll go with typing the command in the command buffer because ... Have you tried going into Tools > Preferences > Editing > Shortcuts and typing "alt+c" into the search box at the top? It should tell you to what Alt+C Down is currently bound. If it is unbound, or if it is bound to something you don't use, you could just rebind it. Here, Alt-C down is bound to word-lowcase and there is no word-lowcase partial. Hmmm-m-m. Thanks, Rich Well, if you don't need word-lowcase, you could also change the binding on Alt-c down to word-lowcase partial. I'm not an emacs user, but I suspect that would be more natural for one. Typing in the command buffer works, and after doing it once you can recycle it for the rest of the session, but you'd have to do it again and again if this was something you used often. Paul
Re: Keyboard shortcuts not working as expected
On Wed, 29 Aug 2018, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I just tested at my end. Alt+C down turns the word to lower case. Highlighting a portion and typing "word-lowcase partial" in the command buffer does what you were trying to do (turns the selection to lower case). So, bottom line, it should work on your system, unless the shortcut got redefined. Paul, I'll go with typing the command in the command buffer because ... Have you tried going into Tools > Preferences > Editing > Shortcuts and typing "alt+c" into the search box at the top? It should tell you to what Alt+C Down is currently bound. If it is unbound, or if it is bound to something you don't use, you could just rebind it. Here, Alt-C down is bound to word-lowcase and there is no word-lowcase partial. Hmmm-m-m. Thanks, Rich
Re: Keyboard shortcuts not working as expected
On 08/29/2018 09:43 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: I use the emacs version as that's my main writing tool. In the current situation I had copied soil map unit characteristics from NRCS web pages to the LyX document. The section headers were in upper case so I highlighted the title from the second letter of the first word. The shortcut didn't work. It also didn't work when I highlighted the entire string. Shrug. I don't do this that often yet wonder if I type the emacs command (that would normallly follow M-x in emacs) into some place in the lyx buffer if I would get the same results. Unfortunately, the number of keys required to type the command is greater than using the Edit -> Text -> to lower with the trackball. I just tested at my end. Alt+C down turns the word to lower case. Highlighting a portion and typing "word-lowcase partial" in the command buffer does what you were trying to do (turns the selection to lower case). So, bottom line, it should work on your system, unless the shortcut got redefined. Have you tried going into Tools > Preferences > Editing > Shortcuts and typing "alt+c" into the search box at the top? It should tell you to what Alt+C Down is currently bound. If it is unbound, or if it is bound to something you don't use, you could just rebind it. Paul
Re: Keyboard shortcuts not working as expected
On Wed, 29 Aug 2018, Paul A. Rubin wrote: No, a bar is where you go after an hour or two of failing to get it to work. Paul, I tried keeping the musical theme. What bind file do you use? The key binding can be found under Tools > Preferences > Editing > Shortcuts > Cursor, Mouse and Editing Functions > word-lowcase. I use the cua bind file, which loads the menus.bind file, which defines the shortcut. I notice that the emacs and xemacs bind files bind it a bit differently (to "word-lowcase partial", which I guess shifts only from the cursor forward rather than the whole word (?). I use the emacs version as that's my main writing tool. In the current situation I had copied soil map unit characteristics from NRCS web pages to the LyX document. The section headers were in upper case so I highlighted the title from the second letter of the first word. The shortcut didn't work. It also didn't work when I highlighted the entire string. Shrug. I don't do this that often yet wonder if I type the emacs command (that would normallly follow M-x in emacs) into some place in the lyx buffer if I would get the same results. Unfortunately, the number of keys required to type the command is greater than using the Edit -> Text -> to lower with the trackball. Thanks, Rich
Re: Keyboard shortcuts not working as expected
On 08/28/2018 04:28 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 28 Aug 2018, Paul A. Rubin wrote: It's not a chord. It's Alt-C (simultaneously), then down arrow (with the other two keys released). Paul, Which is the way I tried it, but didn't know the alternate name. A bar perhaps? Rich Rich, No, a bar is where you go after an hour or two of failing to get it to work. What bind file do you use? The key binding can be found under Tools > Preferences > Editing > Shortcuts > Cursor, Mouse and Editing Functions > word-lowcase. I use the cua bind file, which loads the menus.bind file, which defines the shortcut. I notice that the emacs and xemacs bind files bind it a bit differently (to "word-lowcase partial", which I guess shifts only from the cursor forward rather than the whole word (?). Paul
Re: Keyboard shortcuts not working as expected
On Tue, 28 Aug 2018, Paul A. Rubin wrote: It's not a chord. It's Alt-C (simultaneously), then down arrow (with the other two keys released). Paul, Which is the way I tried it, but didn't know the alternate name. A bar perhaps? Rich
Re: Keyboard shortcuts not working as expected
On 08/28/2018 02:35 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: I'm running LyX-2.3.0 on Slackware-14.2. Most keyboard shortcuts work, but some do not. For example, on the Edit menu -> Text -> lowercase is the chord 'Alt-c down' but that does nothing. Do I need to enter that chord in the settings to have it work? Rich Rich, It's not a chord. It's Alt-C (simultaneously), then down arrow (with the other two keys released). Paul
Keyboard shortcuts not working as expected
I'm running LyX-2.3.0 on Slackware-14.2. Most keyboard shortcuts work, but some do not. For example, on the Edit menu -> Text -> lowercase is the chord 'Alt-c down' but that does nothing. Do I need to enter that chord in the settings to have it work? Rich
