Subject: Re: Feature suggestion: RTF with .doc extension
From: Randy Kramer (rhkramer@fast.net)
Date: Sun Nov 04 2001 - 08:31:16 CST
Alan Horkan wrote:
> Keep in mind that it will usually be "command key" + letter
> on windows the command key is Ctrl, on Mac it is the "Apple Key", on some
> unix systems and BeOS it is Alt. So i dont think you can use combinations
> like Ctrl + Alt without horrible knackering portability.
> Sometimes it could be command key + F1 (or other F? key). Or sometimes
> command key + shift
> + letter, but this should be very closely related to the same combination
> with out shift. for example Ctrl + F7 would be spellchecking and
> (if you have the necessary plugin installed) Ctrl + Shift + F7 is for the
> Thesaurus (which im afraid is not yet available for windows users).
Two things:
I'd like to start a list of the possible command keys on the different
OS's, so we know what is available.
On Windows, I know that you can use almost any combination of the
<ctrl>, <alt>, and <shift> keys along with a "real" "target" key (i.e.,
you can do <ctrl><alt><shift>a). I'm guessing that some other keys can
also be used as command keys, including maybe the Windows key.
The key combination prefixes that I've used in Word97 for Windows
include:
<ctrl>
<alt>
<ctrl><alt>
<ctrl><shift>
<alt><shift>
<ctrl><alt><shift>
Unfortunately, I've used all of these. Partly because, although I'd
like to recommend we use the Word97 key bindings (including for styles),
Microsoft has used a few of all the combinations except
<ctrl><alt><shift>, so, the only completely unused "namespace" where I
could define my own keybindings (shortcut keys) without interfering with
some of the built-in keybindings is <ctrl><alt><shift>.
Can anybody else specify the key command prefixes available in Linux,
Mac, and whatever else we want to consider (Beos, ...)?
Thanks,
Randy Kramer
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