Change of emphasis shortcut

Daniel xracoonx at gmx.de
Thu Jul 13 08:48:54 UTC 2023


Hi!

With LyX 2.4, the shortcut for toggling emphasis will be changed from 
Command+E to Command+Ctrl+E. I find that latter shortcut quite hard to 
use (there is a reason why Alt+Ctl+Delete are the "Security Keys") while 
emphasis is maybe my single most used function with a shortcut (after 
cut, copy, paste). So, this cumbersome shortcut is quite annoying to me.

Of course I can easily change the shortcut myself via the settings and 
fix the problem for me. But I am wondering whether there is a better 
shortcut for this by default. The developers have not come up with ideas 
so far or do not see the problem as severe. So, I am wondering whether 
someone on the users list has an input on this.

As a background: In LyX 2.4, the Command+E shortcut is currently 
assigned to set the search string on macOS. (A feature of macOS that 
some applications support but I was unaware of previously and I know no 
one else who uses it. I guess that is generally true and why it took so 
long until someone came up with introducing it in LyX.)

Best,
Daniel



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