Hi Joe, On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 05:22:43PM -0400, Joe Philbrook wrote: > > Hi, First let me say I'm addicted to LyX for composing almost anything I care > about. > It helps keep me from fat fingering multiple spaces between words etc... And > lets me set screen > font sizes I can see without my reading glasses even when the targeted output > font sizes are > too small for my eyes WITH the glasses... The list goes on and on... Thanks!
Thanks for the kind feedback!
> However my problem with the spellchecker dialog's keybindings have More to do
> with my
> own dexterity issues that have always made using the mouse difficult at best.
> And with carpel
> tunnel issues that often make mouse based methods painful. {Don't know why
> I'm able to keyboard
> for hours before my hands go numb, but the mouse can do it in just a few
> minutes. But the
> result is I'm addicted to keyboard shortcuts and keyboard accessible menu
> based methods.
>
> When I use the spellchecker in LyX and the word I'm looking for is in the
> sUggestions list I'm
> very happy cause there is no conflict for the {alt}+{u} shortcut that lets me
> use the cursor
> keys to select it and {Enter} to apply the spelling correction.
>
> But if I need to tell it to ignore an instance where a character in a story
> is being quoted as
> saying something not in the dictionary lists {Think Homer Simpson saying
> "Doh"} That I may want
> to Ignore. Or perhaps I wanted to use an unusual word such as hisself instead
> of himself
> because it's "In character" for the character being quoted and wish to aDd it
> to my word list.
> And while I never use it, the same problem exists for the "Find next" button.
>
> Lately my problems with mouse operation have been getting worse:
>
> It can take me over a minute to maneuver the "dag nabbed" rodent pointing
> device over the correct
> "durned" button... And the button keybindings indicated by the underscored
> character on the
> button label (AKA: {alt}+{f}, {alt}+{i} and {alt}+{d}) instead activate the
> File, Insert or
> Document menu choices... {sigh}
>
> So I was hoping there was a way to selectively change the keybindings on
> those buttons to
> something that doesn't conflict with the menu bar bindings.
>
> I use the standard user interface with the cua bind file.
>
> I've looked in Tools > Preferences > shortcuts and the only spellchecker
> related shortcut I can
> find is the {F7} to start the spellchecking function {which I do NOT want to
> change}
>
> Even though more advanced methods {if any} of modifying LyX's keybindings are
> beyond my
> understanding, I've looked for clues in Help > LyX Functions, Help >
> Shortcuts without
> finding anything that looks like the add word or ignore word spellchecker
> button functions to me.
>
> I also did a less /usr/share/lyx/bind/cua.bind
>
> But I didn't see anything that looked like it there either.
If I understand correctly, there is no way to customize the buttons from
user text files. But the changes you suggest seem useful more generally
so perhaps we could incorporate them into LyX by default.
You could make a request for us to make changes at
http://www.lyx.org/trac
If you have multiple suggestions, please make separate trac tickets
(although feel free to reference each other).
Scott
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