the plus sign can't be used for key commands

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Reported by Bernd on 2012-12-24 12:01
I was unable to use the + sign in a gestures.ini. This key is at the ] sign on english keyboards.

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Comment 1 by jteh on 2012-12-26 06:28
This occurs because + is used as a separator for multiple keys and is only handled for that purpose. We have two options:

1. Handle + specially if it occurs at the end of a gesture identifier; or
2. Have a special sequence of characters for +; e.g. the worde plus.
   Thoughts (especially from Mick)?

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Comment 2 by jteh on 2012-12-26 06:29
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Milestone changed from None to 2013.1

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Comment 3 by ragb (in reply to comment 1) on 2012-12-26 11:59
Replying to jteh:

This occurs because + is used as a separator for multiple keys and is only handled for that purpose. We have two options:

1. Handle + specially if it occurs at the end of a gesture identifier; or
2. Have a special sequence of characters for +; e.g. the worde plus.

Thoughts (especially from Mick)?

Another suggestion would be to scape the plus sign, i.g. \+. That means backslash to be escaped too, as \\.

Personally I prefer alternative 1, using a special identifier such as "plus". Leaving a plus sign on the end does not provide any direct meaning to it, so unless you don't know what it does you can't really guess.

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Comment 4 by jteh (in reply to comment 3) on 2012-12-26 12:51
Replying to ragb:

Another suggestion would be to scape the plus sign, i.g. \+. That means backslash to be escaped too, as \\.

I thought of this. However, this breaks existing gesture maps (even ones in code) which bind the \ key.

Personally I prefer alternative 1, using a special identifier such as "plus".

Actually, that was option 2. :)

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Comment 5 by mdcurran on 2012-12-27 00:52
I agree with the word 'plus'. I assume its as simple as hard coding this in KeyboardInputGesture.getVKName?

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Comment 6 by jteh on 2013-01-04 05:03
@bernd, does NVDA actually say the correct key name in input help when you press the + (plus) key? On my system, it says = (equals), but that could be because I'm on an English system. That's a separate issue, but I wanted to make sure we don't need to address that one first.

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Comment 7 by Bernd on 2013-01-04 09:53
yes, NVDA says the (plus) key correctly. Even in key commands like nvda++

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Comment 8 by jteh on 2013-01-08 11:33
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