[LyX/master] #8055 use standard shortcut for font-emph on Mac

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 09:32:01AM +0100, Stephan Witt wrote:
> commit a9342ae098024e363891653d1bcf7a8d485a271c
> Author: Stephan Witt <switt at lyx.org>
> Date:   Mon Feb 15 09:35:31 2021 +0100
> 
>     #8055 use standard shortcut for font-emph on Mac
> ---
>  lib/bind/mac.bind |    5 ++---
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/bind/mac.bind b/lib/bind/mac.bind
> index 8d54e4c..531465b 100644
> --- a/lib/bind/mac.bind
> +++ b/lib/bind/mac.bind
> @@ -141,7 +141,6 @@ Format 5
>  \bind "C-S-D"                        "buffer-update dvi"	# 'd' for dvi
>  #  +: "Command-E"                    # Use the selection for a find
>  \bind "C-e"                          "search-string-set"
> -\bind "C-M-e"                        "font-emph"
>  #  +: "Command-F"                    # Open a Find window
>  \bind "C-f"                          "dialog-toggle findreplace"
>  \bind "C-S-f"                        "dialog-toggle findreplaceadv"
> @@ -152,8 +151,8 @@ Format 5
>  \bind "C-S-g"                        "word-find-backward"
>  #  +: "Command-H"                    # Hide the windows of the currently running application
>  #  +: "Option-Command-H"             # Hide the windows of all other running applications
> -#  -: "Command-I"                    # Italicize the selected text or toggle italic text on or off
> -\bind "C-i"                          "inset-toggle" # 'i' for Inset
> +#  +: "Command-I"                    # Italicize the selected text or toggle italic text on or off
> +\bind "C-i"                          "command-alternatives inset-toggle; font-emph" # 'i' for Inset
>  \bind "C-M-i"                        "inset-settings"
>  #  -: "Option-Command-I"             # Display an inspector window
>  #  -: "Command-J"                    # Scroll to a selection

I think this could have problems when both inset-toggle and font-emph
are valid. For example, create a footnote and write text inside. Then
put the cursor inside and run the command-alternatives.

I don't think the C-e binding is a Linux/Windows-specific binding.
Rather, I think it's a LaTeX thing. I believe the idea is that the user
or document class can redefine what it means to "emphasize" text from
italics to something else.

I do think that a fair amount new users are confused by C-e (instead of
C-i), but I have surprisingly seen few complaints so perhaps adapting is
not too difficult.

Scott
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