Change of emphasis shortcut

[Daniel]

On 2023-07-29 18:21, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> On 7/24/23 14:35, Daniel wrote:
>> On 2023-07-13 10:48, Daniel wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>> Looks like no one came up with a similarly good shortcut as the old 
>> one. That might not be too surprising. Unfortunately, it will leave 
>> macOS users in the dust with the next major version.
> 
> I myself tend to set Ctrl-I for emphasis, which is what most 
> applications use. Of course, they mean "Italic", not emphasis, but it's 
> what I'm used to.
> 
> Riki

Interesting. And I like the idea of having cross-application shortcuts. 
However, on macOS Cmd-I is "inset-toggle". Is it not used for that on 
Linux by default?

Daniel