On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Napoléon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> There are already many shortcuts been used, and also esclips uses
>> ctrl+/ to comment code, so I don't think using symbols or numbers are
>> bad things.
> ...
>
> They are! ... and this problem is exactly the same in Eclipse than in
> Ulipad!
>
> Many programs, even the best ones (I include Ulipad in this category),
> have shortcuts that cannot be used by all the users. Using WinXp with
> a French keyboard (my case), to comment/uncomment you can access "Ctrl
> +/" but you can't access "Ctrl+\" because "\" is "AltGr+_" on a French
> keyboard. Surely some users in other countries have similar problems
> with a few other shortcuts that a French keyboard can access easily.
> The keyboards are so numerous that it's better to use only the
> functions keys Fx, the navigation keys, and the ascii letters (with of
> course various combinations of Ctrl, Alt and Shift) in an
> international program because these patterns can be accessed directly
> on most of existing keyboard configurations. Direct access to symbols
> and numbers is very variable according to the countries. If a symbol
> must be accessed by a key combination, adding a new combination using
> this symbol as shortcut doesn't work. Going back to the previous
> example: if the Win French keyboard driver sees "AltGr+_" as "\", it
> won't see "Ctrl+AltGr+_" as "Ctrl+\" and so on. The result of such
> shortcuts is very uncertain and variable according to the localization
> of the keyboard of the user...
>
> Maybe a way exists to turn around that but I don't know it. Without
> changing the shortcuts, the easiest way for the user to turn around
> such broken shortcuts without having to open a menu is the toolbar.
> The best is of course to let the user be able to configure himself his
> toolbar to include only the buttons really useful for him (too much
> buttons is not good is a possibility of managing them is not present).
>
>

You can see  the config.txt document, and change the uncomment
shortcuts to what you want .

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