Next and Previous View Keyboard Shortcuts Conflict with Text Selection Shortcuts

[hsoft]

This is an issue Safari had a while ago. The keyboard shortcuts for changing tabs/views, cmd+shift+left and cmd+shift+right, conflict with the text-selection shortcuts to select text from the insertion point to the beginning or end of a line. Safari has since changed its shortcuts to cmd+shift+[ and cmd+shift+] to avoid the issue.

I ran into this while editing a description cell in the account view. Instead of selecting the text between the insertion point and the beginning of the line, as I expected, my edit was committed, and the view switched to the transactions view. Text selection shortcuts work as expected when the corresponding view changing shortcut is not available.

[hsoft]

Yeah, I've been bitten by this as well.

[hsoft]

(from [86]) [#59 state:fixed] Changed the arrow based shortcuts to [] based shortcuts.

[hsoft]

I wonder how people with non-US keyboards (which instead of having brackets in the right side of the keyboard, have accents and stuff) work with keyboard shortcuts. I tried switching to a french keyboard, and the shortcut, of course, wouldn't work.

However, Safari has the same problem, so I guess all apps have the same problem. Does it mean all people with non-US keyboards mainly use the mouse?

[hsoft]

I haven't updated to Snow Leopard yet, but will soon. It sounds like Apple may have ("fixed")[http://hivelogic.com/articles/fix-broken-textmate-command-arrow-keys-in-snow-leopard/] this bug.

[hsoft]

To actually answer your question, the keyboard shortcut listed in the Window menu changes to ctrl-tab and crtl-shift-tab when the keyboard layout is set to French. These both work with the US keyboard too, but they aren't listed in the menu.

[hsoft]

I have to keep the arrow shortcuts around, after all. It really is a problem for foreign keyboards setup.

My first though would be to add some code on keyDown: of the main window which would check for arrow shorcut. I think that by having it there instead of the Main Menu, it would not conflict with the text shortcuts.

[hsoft]

[milestone:id#49656 bulk edit command]

[hsoft]

(from [114]) [#59 state:fixed] Added manual shortcuts to re-instate the old arrow based shortcuts (and these don't interfere with text based shortcuts!).