[Lazarus] Keys attached to IDE functions

Jürgen Hestermann juergen.hestermann at gmx.de
Wed Apr 4 18:02:34 CEST 2012


In the IDE Options the key mappings can be searched (and changed) very 
convenient. But when I filter for "breakpoint" I only get 3 functions 
listed. It took me quite a while to find out that the other breakpoint 
related functions are named "break point" (with a space in the middle). 
I think that this word should be written in the same way (without space) 
for all cases.

Yet another issue that stroke me:
When searching for a key I often don't know how it is actually named. 
But I know which key invokes it. So I search for the function with "find 
key combination". That's fine so far. Having read it's name I often want 
do see other related keys with similar names and do another search by 
name. But this does not work anymore. I have to exit from the options 
dialog and reinvoke it to do another search by name. Is that intended? 
It's a bit annoying.

And yet another one: When I want to assign a new key and this key is 
already assigned to another function I get a message telling me whether 
I still want to assign to this key. If I answer no, the whole assignment 
dialog is closed. Often I want to try another key but first I have to 
find my entry (it's not even highlighted anymore!) and double click on 
it again. This repeats for each unsuccessful try of keys. I am not sure 
whether this can be changed easily but if yes I (and hopefully others 
too) would appreciate if someone does.

And a last one: What is the difference between "Toggle Breakpoint" and 
"Toggle view Breakpoints"? The names sound identical but "Toggle view 
Breakpoints" only shows the list of breakpoints. And it does not toggle 
anything. Once called it does not close when I use the related key 
again. Shouldn't this be named "Show Breakpoints" or something like this?





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