Just to clarify, I don't mean swapping Command and Option for menu items. I mean that I would like the default OS behavior for text editing commands. Example: Option+Arrow to skip over a word. Currently NeoOffice/J uses Command+Arrow for this which is weird.
-----Original Message----- From: Andrew Fisk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 1:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [users] Change a key combination? Not sure that you would want to swap command & option, I know I would get very confused if print/save/cut/copy/paste etc. suddenly strayed from their mac write/paint roots. If it truly drives you nuts, quick- keys from ce software (http://www.cesoft.com/) will allow you to assign custom keystrokes to almost anything you want -- normally you would record a sequence, but you could just do assign command-shift- arrow key to option-shift-arrowkey, that way you wouldn't mess up the rest of your menus. or a quick google turned up > I searched OS X download sites for cheaper alternatives and found a > couple of promising utilities. Both are well designed. > One that can easily perform most of the functions of QuicKeys is > Keyboard Maestro, a $20 Mac OS X program from > www.clairewaresoftware.com. I ran it instead of QuicKeys for about > a month and hardly missed QuicKeys. It does not have the range of > functions that QuicKeys for OS X does, but I suspect most users > would not mind. > Another utility for OS X that seems promising is Key Xing, which > costs only $7. I liked it immediately. You can download it from > homepage.mac.com/scalo/keyxing.html. If you like iTunes, the music > software supplied free with all modern Apple computers, you'll love > Key Xing. It lets you control the iTunes program from the keyboard, > without needing iTunes visible. > A third OS X macro program is Youpi Key, from the French > programmer Philippe Hupe. It's free, has many advanced features. > Exploring them might take a week, but the time would be enjoyably > spent. When I tried Youpi Key, I felt the program needed a little > more polishing. Just before writing this review, I checked the > author's Web site and saw that he had improved the software already. > You can download Youpi Key from Hupe's Web site, perso.club- > internet.fr/phupe/english. If you have a hard time getting to that > site, go to www.versiontracker.com, click the OS X category, and > use "Youpi Key" (without quotes) as the search term. It does seem strange to stray from a pretty well established mac convention -- particularly if users have a non-mac keybaord without a command key. Andy Spitfire Computer Services 441 Beaver Street Suite 202 Sewickley, PA 15143 Phone (412) 749-0162 Fax: (412) 749-0203 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.spitcomp.com On Sep 9, 2005, at 1:23 PM, Brant Sears wrote: > I'm using NeoOffice/J 1.1 for MacOS X. One issue that I have > noticed is that the normal key combinations used for editing text > on the Mac like Shift+Optiion+Left Arrow to extend the selection > by a word using the Command key in NeoOffice/J for some reason. Too > bad I have over 10 years of muscle memory telling me to press the > Option key instead of Command. > > In the configuration, there is a way to change what a key > combination does, but there does not seem to be a way to edit the > key combination itself. Am I missing some way to configure the app > the way I want (i.e. swap the Command and Option keys)? > > Thanks > > Brant Sears > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
