Standard key binding for SyncTeX forward-search?

Stephan Witt st.witt at gmx.net
Thu Feb 20 16:37:52 UTC 2020


Am 20.02.2020 um 17:08 schrieb Stephan Witt <st.witt at gmx.net>:
> 
> 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.

Stephan


More information about the lyx-devel mailing list