keyboard-shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts

Is there a standard when it comes to implementing keyboard shortcuts / accelerator keys for web applications. Example: Navigating through a list of items presented in a grid Are their guidelines on how to implement this? Google has one for GMail in the "labs" section. Also would it make business sense in investing time for implementin...

How can I access the bookmarks toolbar using only shortcuts in Firefox 3

I am not interested in accessing the bookmarks menu or sidebar. The specific goal that I'm trying to accomplish is to be able to easily navigate (using only the keyboard) through the live bookmarks loaded from stack overflow by means of a feed reader and located on my bookmarks toolbar. Notes: I have found an add-on that supposedly d...

What are common shortcuts?

To send a message I usually press ctrl + enter. What other shortcuts do you think are important to implement into your webapplications? Edit: What buttons do you think are interessting to catch with js because they aren't used by the browser? I am not thinking of ctrl + z f.e. because the browser uses those maybe shift + [key] makes s...

Make Visual Studio understand CamelCase when hitting ctrl and cursor keys

Is there a way that I can configure Visual Studio 2008 to understand CamelCase? Specifically, I'd like to be able to get ctrl + right or left cursor to take me to a subsection of a variable or type name. i.e., if my cursor was at the start of this line: LongNamedExampleClass longNamed = new LongNamedExampleClass(); and I hit ctrl + ...

Remove elusive keyboard binding in visual studio

Ever since I installed the free edition of devexpress backslash (Alt Gr++ on my swedish keybaord) is bound to expand selection. While that feature is useful I still prefer backslash when I am to choose between the two. When I check Tools | Options | Environment | Keybaord I can't find the shortcut anywhere and I can re-bind the shortcut...

What is the short cut in eclipse to terminate debugging/running?

What is the short cut in eclipse to terminate debugging/running? Looking under Preferences->Keys says Ctrl+F2 but it doesn't work. ...

What do you do to learn shortcuts?

Keyboard shortcuts can definitely improve your productivity. But first you have to learn them... What do you do to become shortcut-master? Do you just try to remember? Use a tool similar to KeyTraino? Have a .txt file with shortcuts you're trying to learn? Have a ton of posters with shortcuts hanging on a wall? How is that working for...

Can Windows key be mapped in Vim?

Using Windows key as Meta is very useful in Emacs, is there the way to do it in Vim? ...

Mac OS X Terminal: Map option+delete to "backward delete word"

Tried to map it from Preferences -> Settings -> Keyboard, but the "key" combo box has only "forward delete" but no "delete". My keyboard on the other hand has only "delete" and no "forward delete"! Is there some other way to do it except from the preferences? ...

Visual Studio 2008 - jump to line number shortcut

I can go to a specific line number by double clicking in the status bar in Visual Studio. Is there a keyboard shortcut that does the same thing? ...

Intellij shortcut for quick call hierarchy

Is there a shortcut key to bring up the call hierarchy of a method inline with the code, in the quick menu format, rather than bringing up the call hierarchy panel? ...

Locate in solution explorer reSharper shortcut

I am using ReSharper and love it! However I have one problem, when i hit Shift-Alt-L ReSharper only locates the file in solution explorer if the folder it is located in is open. If the folder is not open, ReSharper doesn't locate the file. ...

Import Emacs Keyboard Configuration Into Eclipse?

In Eclipse, in the menu, I can go to Window -> Preferences -> Keys and set the Scheme to "Emacs." I can also click "Export" at the bottom-right hand side of the dialog to export a .CSV file containing a listing of my keyboard mappings. How do I re-import this configuration into a different installation of Eclipse? The File -> Import opt...

Reenable (windows)keys after another program has disabled it

Quake3 has disabled the alt and windows keys. Is there any way to reenable them even while quake3 is running? I need those keys even while i have the game open. They way i think it works is that the game registers a hotkey using RegisterHotKey and then set the handled property to true every time the key is pressed. So if you use UnRegis...

Eclipse keyboard shortcut to an Ant task?

Is there a way to run a specific Ant task via the keyboard? I have a rsync to dev task that I run a lot and running to the mouse to double-click is a pain. ...

Adobe AIR Keyboard Hook

I'm trying to add a feature to my AIR app that can listen for (configurable) global keyboard events even when the app is minimized. Ex: CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-F12 to grab a screenshot. I can't find any way to register a keyboard hook, and listening for keyboard events only captures them when the app has focus. Suggestions? ...

Reaching up to hit the escape key sucks (especially in vim).

Escape is almost as important as the enter key, used universally for "cancel". In vim, it's arguably more important than the space bar, making its location highly suboptimal. What key remappings -- either globally (for the whole operating system) or just within vim -- or other solutions do folks have for this problem? I'll include thi...

Best way to implement keyboard shortcuts in winforms?

I'm looking for a best way to implement common windows keyboard shortcuts (for example Ctrl-F, Ctrl-N) in my winforms app in C#. The app has a main form which hosts many child forms (one at a time). What I'd like to do is this: when a user hits Ctrl-F I'd like to show custom search form. The search form would depend on the current open...

"Windows" key as part of a shortcut key

I very often open a console window while doing my development. Usually win+r -> cmd -> enter. However, Windows also lets you add a shortcut key to any shortcut ... but when I try to add Win + C to make the shortcut for my favorite-sized/shaped/buffered console appear, it uses ctrl+alt+c instead (already used in various editors and othe...

Can you organize imports for an entire project in eclipse with a keystroke?

Wouldn't it be nice to just do a keystroke and have eclipse organize all imports in all java classes instead of just the one you are looking at? Is this possible? Is there a keystroke for it? ...