OOPKSC - Out Of Place Keyboard Shortcuts
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IDE keyboard shortcuts become second nature to developers. So much so, that we expect them to work everywhere. Like ctrl-C does. What shortcuts do you find yourself trying to use where they don't work? For me, I'm always trying to delete or move lines with the Visual Studio ctrl-l (delete line), and alt-[arrow] (move line up or down) in things like Word.
Toggling comments. Ctrl+K, Ctrl+C to comment in VS Ctrl+K, Ctrl+U to uncomment in VS Ctrl+/ to toggle on or off in everything else.
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As a Word user since the earliest "Word for Windows" days, I think your statement needs a little refinement. I think it should read: "Microsoft hasn't added anything useful to Word in a long time (at least since 2003)." At that, they've removed a number of useful features or rendered them less effective, all in the name of security.
Software Zen:
delete this;I just wish Win10 was better at running 16 bit apps: Ami Pro was so much better than Word - and it was so tiny! :laugh:
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I just wish Win10 was better at running 16 bit apps: Ami Pro was so much better than Word - and it was so tiny! :laugh:
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I just wish Win10 was better at running 16 bit apps: Ami Pro was so much better than Word - and it was so tiny! :laugh:
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OriginalGriff wrote:
Win10 was better at running 16 bit apps
For what it's worth, I use VirtualBox to run an MS-DOS virtual machine in order to build a certain [very damned old] product using Microsoft C 6.0. I'm sure you could do the same to run Ami Pro ;).
Software Zen:
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Isn't that the "spawn SkyNet™" hot key?
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IDE keyboard shortcuts become second nature to developers. So much so, that we expect them to work everywhere. Like ctrl-C does. What shortcuts do you find yourself trying to use where they don't work? For me, I'm always trying to delete or move lines with the Visual Studio ctrl-l (delete line), and alt-[arrow] (move line up or down) in things like Word.
Just make the computer use the control sequences/shortcuts you want. I'm an old fart and I have the WordStar shortcuts/control sequences embedded in my brain. So for a couple of decades I only used editors that were configurable enough to continue to use the WordStar sequences. I also remapped the keyboard after IBM changed the control key location (to put it back to where it belonged). Now a days I just use AutoHotKey to let every editor/word processor I use, use the WordStar controls. Word, Code Composer Studio, Visual Studio, NotePad++, jEdit, etc. They all use the WordStar sequences when my AutoHotKey script is active.
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IDE keyboard shortcuts become second nature to developers. So much so, that we expect them to work everywhere. Like ctrl-C does. What shortcuts do you find yourself trying to use where they don't work? For me, I'm always trying to delete or move lines with the Visual Studio ctrl-l (delete line), and alt-[arrow] (move line up or down) in things like Word.
What drives me crazy is that Ctrl+Z for UNDO has a perfectly logical Shift+Ctrl+Z for REDO. Why doesn't everything - what is this stupid Ctrl+Y for, half-way across the keyboard?
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IDE keyboard shortcuts become second nature to developers. So much so, that we expect them to work everywhere. Like ctrl-C does. What shortcuts do you find yourself trying to use where they don't work? For me, I'm always trying to delete or move lines with the Visual Studio ctrl-l (delete line), and alt-[arrow] (move line up or down) in things like Word.
Speaking of OLD software shortcuts you had to learn and use, I still remember the WordStar shortcuts to mnark a block of text: You had to use Ctrl+KB to mark the "blocK Beggining", then Ctrl+KK to mark the blocK end(K?), finally Ctrl+KC for blocK Copying. Oh! the good days of word processors in DOS!
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IDE keyboard shortcuts become second nature to developers. So much so, that we expect them to work everywhere. Like ctrl-C does. What shortcuts do you find yourself trying to use where they don't work? For me, I'm always trying to delete or move lines with the Visual Studio ctrl-l (delete line), and alt-[arrow] (move line up or down) in things like Word.
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IDE keyboard shortcuts become second nature to developers. So much so, that we expect them to work everywhere. Like ctrl-C does. What shortcuts do you find yourself trying to use where they don't work? For me, I'm always trying to delete or move lines with the Visual Studio ctrl-l (delete line), and alt-[arrow] (move line up or down) in things like Word.
Not out of place but just plain mia on windows, multiple copy and paste buffers "ayy "byy It used to be so easy to edit multiple files in unix and paste in sets of changes rather than just work backwards and forwards ok, so I am mixing operating systems but I have been windows based for 15 or more years and I still miss this functionality There are always third party utilities but I prefer to keep the use of these to a minimum and it should just be baked in and breathe...
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PF4 / Gold-PF4 delete line / undelete line. (If I recall correctly.)
Wow, that was the EDT command on DEC VT terminals... We had mostly paper terminals EX
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Wow, that was the EDT command on DEC VT terminals... We had mostly paper terminals EX
Yuppers. :D Sadly, my VT220 went zap. Trying to use EDT in an emulator is frustrating, but at least I have one that emulates Gold pretty well.
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IDE keyboard shortcuts become second nature to developers. So much so, that we expect them to work everywhere. Like ctrl-C does. What shortcuts do you find yourself trying to use where they don't work? For me, I'm always trying to delete or move lines with the Visual Studio ctrl-l (delete line), and alt-[arrow] (move line up or down) in things like Word.
You know what drives me mad? When I try to use Ctrl+Y to redo and it deletes a line. Not only do I lose that line but I lose all the code that I've just undone with Ctrl+Z. :doh: I've changed the key mapping on my computer but I was helping a friend with his code the other day and managed to delete a load of it :~
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IDE keyboard shortcuts become second nature to developers. So much so, that we expect them to work everywhere. Like ctrl-C does. What shortcuts do you find yourself trying to use where they don't work? For me, I'm always trying to delete or move lines with the Visual Studio ctrl-l (delete line), and alt-[arrow] (move line up or down) in things like Word.
