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The Most Convenient Keyboard Shortcuts Ever

Michael Sollami, Salesforce
Posted 6 years ago
POSTED BY: Michael Sollami
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All my keyboard shortcuts have stopped working with version 12.1. Oh well.
POSTED BY: Gianluca Gorni

@kuba Cool, thanks for the link I'll check it out. Do you know if there's any overview/list of the ones Rolf supports? Also, do they work on linux and windows as well as macos?
POSTED BY: Michael Sollami

There is an image from Shortcuts documentation attached to the SE post I linked. And it suggests they work on Linux and macOS.

p.s. you may also be interested in: https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/164653/live-code-templates
POSTED BY: Kuba Podkalicki

FYI, check Shortcuts`:

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/a/85824/5478

Get@"http://www.mertig.com/shortcuts.m"

It does not support [_] but [[_]] + many more.
POSTED BY: Kuba Podkalicki

I have set the BBEdit text editor so that Cmd-[, Cmd-{, Cmd-" Cmd-( give [] {} "" () pairs, enclosing any selected text, and they work fine.

The KeyEventTranslations that I reported above were meant to reproduce the same behaviours, but among them only Cmd-" and Cmd-( perform as desired on my system. I remember that back during Mathematica version 8 (or 7, I am not sure), when I first heard of these tricks, they were working correctly.

I wonder if it is an idiosincrasy of my system.
POSTED BY: Gianluca Gorni

Gianluca,

Please clarify your post. Are you saying that it now works in Mathematica or are you saying that you can use Cmd-[ as a shortcut in another program (but not in Mathematica)?

Regards

Neil
POSTED BY: Neil Singer

These shortcuts would only in Mathematica (if you configure them as above).
POSTED BY: Michael Sollami

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POSTED BY: EDITORIAL BOARD

It appears that Cmd-[ will not work on my mac either, but if I use Mike's shortcut and change it to Control, it works. I suspect the OS is using CMD-[ for something else. For example, in System Preferences, CMD-[ is back in the view menu. Maybe that definition is global so Mathematica can't use it.

Regards,

Neil
POSTED BY: Neil Singer

I configured the very same keyboard shortcuts Cmd-[ etc in the BBEdit text editor, and they work fine in there.

POSTED BY: Gianluca Gorni
Rohit Namjoshi
Rohit Namjoshi
Posted 6 years ago

Cleaner to place the modified KeyEventTranslations.tr in

FileNameJoin[{$UserBaseDirectory, "SystemFiles/FrontEnd/TextResources/Macintosh"}]

rather than changing the installed application contents.

POSTED BY: Rohit Namjoshi

Hi Rohit, you are correct, but the reason I'm using the system application folder is that I have a few different copies of mma, and I've encountered issues when configuring them from a common $UserBaseDirectory.
POSTED BY: Michael Sollami

Sadly, these shortcuts don't work on my Mac. Could that depend on the keyboard layout? I have the following custom key event translations in my file:

(* Matching double quotes*)
Item[KeyEvent["'",Modifiers->{Command,Shift}],
    FrontEndExecute[FrontEnd`NotebookApply[FrontEnd`InputNotebook[],
      "\"\[SelectionPlaceholder]\"", Placeholder]]],
(* Matching curly braces*)
Item[KeyEvent["[",Modifiers->{Command,Shift}],
    FrontEndExecute[FrontEnd`NotebookApply[FrontEnd`InputNotebook[],
      "{\[SelectionPlaceholder]}", Placeholder]]],
(* Matching square braces*)
Item[KeyEvent["[",Modifiers->{Command}],
    FrontEndExecute[FrontEnd`NotebookApply[FrontEnd`InputNotebook[],
      "[\[SelectionPlaceholder]]", Placeholder]]],
(* Matching parentheses*)
Item[KeyEvent["9",Modifiers->{Command,Shift}],
    FrontEndExecute[FrontEnd`NotebookApply[FrontEnd`InputNotebook[],
      "(\[SelectionPlaceholder])", Placeholder]]],
(* Matching bracketing bars*)
Item[KeyEvent["|",Modifiers->{Command,Shift}],
    FrontEndExecute[FrontEnd`NotebookApply[FrontEnd`InputNotebook[],
     "\[LeftBracketingBar]\[SelectionPlaceholder]\[RightBracketingBar]", 
     Placeholder]]],
(* Matching double bracketing bars*)
Item[KeyEvent["|",Modifiers->{Command,Alt}],
    FrontEndExecute[FrontEnd`NotebookApply[FrontEnd`InputNotebook[],
     "\[LeftDoubleBracketingBar]\[SelectionPlaceholder]\[RightDoubleBracketingBar]", 
     Placeholder]]]

but only the double quotes and the matching parentheses work correctly. These things used to work fine in version 8, but then they degraded over time. I complained with Wolfram, but they didn't seem to care about maintaining this functionality.
POSTED BY: Gianluca Gorni
Rohit Namjoshi
Rohit Namjoshi
Posted 6 years ago

Hi Gianluca,

I use Control rather than Command on my Mac e.g.

Item[KeyEvent["[",Modifiers->{Control}],
    FrontEndExecute[{FrontEnd`NotebookWrite[FrontEnd`InputNotebook[],
    "[\[SelectionPlaceholder]]"],FrontEndToken["MovePreviousPlaceHolder"]}]],

Item[KeyEvent["]",Modifiers->{Control}],
    FrontEndExecute[{FrontEnd`NotebookWrite[FrontEnd`InputNotebook[],
    "\[LeftDoubleBracket]\[SelectionPlaceholder]\[RightDoubleBracket]"],
    FrontEndToken["MovePreviousPlaceHolder"],FrontEndToken["MovePreviousPlaceHolder"]}]],
POSTED BY: Rohit Namjoshi

Hi Gianluca, that's too bad! I'm using version 12.0, but I'll try your shortcuts out later and let you know if they work for me.
POSTED BY: Michael Sollami
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