Shortcut keys

[Tiago Sousa]

Wish list again to the sexy editor I'm in love with;P

Keyboard shortcuts shouldn't be in the middle of the qwerty keyboard. It makes them slow to use.

Example, I'm not able to duplicate a line(Ctrl+j) or search the next occurrence(Ctrl+g) just by using the left hand. I have to move my finger to the furtherest part of the right half in the keyboard to do this. On the other hand, searching (ctrl+f) and deleting a line (ctrl+d) can be easily done with just one hand, speeding up the operation and making it more comfortable to do.

I give more importance to finding the next occurrence, which is really bummer to do :\

[Tiago Sousa (tiagoboldt)]

So I've noticed that ctrl+g to find the next occurrence is kind of a standard, also present in firefox.. That's why you've chosen that, then..

Well, since it's standard, maybe there's no reason to change it, then.. It's me who have to adapt to it.

[Yuri Malheiros (yurimalheiros)]

Yes, ctrl+g is a default gnome shortcut for next occurrence.

You're right when you said that ctrl+d is faster than ctrl+j shortcut, but TextFlow has a lot of shortcut and is hard to find a good shortcut.

A lot of shortcuts isn't a good thing, it's hard to new users remember all of them. Because this I'm making plans to reduce TF shortcuts and make them more "smart" and intuitive to users.

[Tiago Sousa (tiagoboldt)]

"A lot of shortcuts isn't a good thing, it's hard to new users remember all of them."

Sure, but new users don't even use them at all. More experienced users surelly miss them.

As for me, I think these are vital: search, next and previous on search, delete line, goto line, copy, cut, paste and select all (ctrl+a).

Since we're having an goto line(hope it's ctrl+l), I guess that textflow is really in the good direction :D

PS.: Good job with the, I've spent the week in c and openGL, and it has been opened since;P

[Tiago Sousa (tiagoboldt)]

By intuition I've just remembered that I use F3 to go to the next occurrence on a search. Also works on firefox et al.

Please? 0:)

[Waldecir Loureiro dos Santos Filho (waldecir)]

i agree, F3 is more windows shorkeys, we will discuss about the short-keys