[Lazarus] the new menu "source"

michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be
Thu Mar 17 10:49:51 CET 2011



On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Alexander Klenin wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 17:07, zeljko <zeljko at holobit.net> wrote:
>> On Thursday 17 of March 2011 08:02:16 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
>>> Op 2011-03-16 22:29, Žilvinas Ledas het geskryf:
>>> > And another observation - wouldn't it be better to have simpler shortcut
>>> > for "Rename identifier"? e. g. MonoDevelop uses F2 (as Windows uses it
>>> > to rename a file).
>>>
>>> Brilliant idea! I use shortcuts extensively, but for some reason could
>>> never remember the default one for "rename identifier". So I used
>>> Shift+F6 - the same shortcut as in Total Commander (also a tool I use
>>> often, even under Linux) for renaming files.
>>>
>>> F2 is even better. :)
>>>
>>> Now only if I can find the time to complete my IDE add-on that allows
>>> you to print out your keyboard shortcuts as a reference card.
>>
>> Yes, that would be nice thing to have.
>>
>
> I'd vote for Ctrl+Shift+E:
> 1) Delphi compatibility (it is importatnt for me at least, at times I
> have to switch IDE's every 15 minutes)
> 2) IMO F2 is too prominent for this

It depends on the key mapping. In "classic IDE", F2 means "save file",
as it has been since 198X in the old Turbo Pascal IDEs

So F2 is not really a good choice.

Michael.



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