Standard key binding for SyncTeX forward-search?

[Stephan Witt]

Am 20.02.2020 um 19:24 schrieb Kornel Benko <kornel at lyx.org>:
> 
> Am Thu, 20 Feb 2020 18:10:30 +0100
> schrieb Stephan Witt <st.witt at gmx.net>:
> 
>> Am 20.02.2020 um 17:37 schrieb Stephan Witt <st.witt at gmx.net>:
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>>> Am 20.02.2020 um 17:08 schrieb Stephan Witt <st.witt at gmx.net>:  
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>>>> Am 20.02.2020 um 16:49 schrieb Christopher Menzel <chris.menzel at gmail.com>:  
>>>>> 
>>>>>> while working with SyncTeX I came to the conclusion a standard
>>>>>> key binding for "Navigate > Forward Search" would be very useful.  
>>>>> 
>>>>> That's certainly one of my most-used custom keybindings. I use emacs bindings so
>>>>> have mapped it to C-c-f. You obviously wouldn't want to hijack C-c if you use CUA
>>>>> bindings (and you use Windows or Linux rather than a Mac). 
>>>>>> I’d like to propose:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> \bind "C-S-F" "forward-search“  
>>>>> 
>>>>> As Scott pointed out, that is indeed the cua binding for advanced find; from
>>>>> cua.bind:
>>>>> 
>>>>> \bind "C-S-f"                   "dialog-show findreplaceadv“'  
>>>> 
>>>> Yes, indeed. I’ve used case sensitive grep to search for a free binding and missed
>>>> it. :( The preferences and the menu present these with capital letters.
>>>> 
>>>> So a better grep shows the free keys are: C-S-c and C-S-h.  
>>> 
>>> Also working and IMO sensible is: C-S-Right.  
>> 
>> But also not free :(
>> 
>> I think this reveals a real problem. I’ve detected some other clashes
>> introduced over time. E.g. in mac.bind
>> 
>> \bind "M-C-Right"  "depth-increment"
>> \bind "C-M-Right"  "tabular-feature move-column-right"
>> 
>> I’ll see how to check for this with a script…
>> 
>> Stephan
> 
> Thanks for the idea. Script is ready.
> 
> For mac, I get
> $ bindCheck.pl mac
> 	file = /usr/src/lyx/lyx-git/lib/bind/mac.bind
> 	clash for key C-M-Right in line 365
> 		prev line(266)	value(depth-increment)
> 		new  line(365)	value(tabular-feature move-column-right)
> 	clash for key C-M-Left in line 366
> 		prev line(267)	value(depth-decrement)
> 		new  line(366)	value(tabular-feature move-column-left)
> $ bindCheck.pl cua
> 	clash for key S-F7 in line 216
> 		prev line(120)	value(thesaurus-entry)
> 		new  line(216)	value(bookmark-save 7)

:)

Plus Escape?

cua.bind:237:\bind "Escape"			"cancel"
mac.bind:362:\bind "Escape"                       "cancel"
math.bind:139:\bind "Escape"		„escape"

Ok, now I propose this for forward-search:

\bind "C-S-colon"                    "forward-search"
\bind "C-S-period"                   "forward-search"

The duplication is intentional to make it work for different keyboard layouts.
Is this duplication acceptable or is there some other technique to solve this?

Stephan