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

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 2/15/21 10:24 AM, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> 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.

Good catch. Stephan, I think it would be fine to re-assign inset-toggle.
I don't think it works terribly reliably anyway.

Riki