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bug #41180: Missing hot-keys for certain commands

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Thu 09 Jan 2014 09:42:55 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  GUI Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Feature Request
Status:  Duplicate Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Originator Email:  -email is unavailable-
Open/Closed:  * Closed Release:  * 3.8.0
Operating System:  * Any Fixed Release:  None
Planned Release:  None
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Fri 12 May 2017 11:06:56 AM UTC, comment #11: 

Since bug #40156 is no longer about GUI keybindings I want to suggest adding ctrl-a by default for selecting the entire text in the current editor tab.

Alexander Wilms <alexanderw>
Thu 16 Jan 2014 08:18:59 PM UTC, comment #10: 

closing report. Plesae refer to
bug #40156 for suggested shortcuts,
bug #41199 for code section support, and
bug #41217 for customizable key bindings

Torsten Lilge <ttl>
Group Member
Mon 13 Jan 2014 03:50:53 PM UTC, comment #9: 

I think this can be closed.
it's been split off in #40156, #41199, #41217.

Felipe G. Nievinski <fgnievinski>
Fri 10 Jan 2014 08:51:00 PM UTC, comment #8: 

this one is a missing feature not just a different keybinding:

"Evaluate section (sections are separated by %% )"

(Matlab call such sections "cells")

So I've filed in into a separate bug report (#41199). let me know if that's excessive separation.

Felipe G. Nievinski <fgnievinski>
Fri 10 Jan 2014 08:37:40 PM UTC, comment #7: 

I'll file a separate report with the feature request for customizable keybindings.

may I suggest marking the present bug as a duplicate of the earlier #40156?

I'll copy the ones given here other there, then summarize them all.

thanks.

Felipe G. Nievinski <fgnievinski>
Fri 10 Jan 2014 08:13:58 PM UTC, comment #6: 

I meant, matlab's defaults for the current OS.

Felipe G. Nievinski <fgnievinski>
Fri 10 Jan 2014 08:12:47 PM UTC, comment #5: 

we say "matlab" what is meant is is matlab's default settings.


Felipe G. Nievinski <fgnievinski>
Fri 10 Jan 2014 08:07:46 PM UTC, comment #4: 

Matlab has multiple default sets of keybindings and they are customizable.  So saying that Octave needs to have keybinding X to match what Matlab doesn't make much sense to me.  What we need first is a way to customize the keybindings.  Then we can define default sets for various prferences (Emacs, Windows, OS X, whatever).

John W. Eaton <jwe>
Group administrator
Fri 10 Jan 2014 08:06:31 PM UTC, comment #3: 

Hotkey for "Find Next" is missing (F3 on windows systems)

Torsten Lilge <ttl>
Group Member
Fri 10 Jan 2014 08:04:53 PM UTC, comment #2: 

with --traditional, these "should be"...

Felipe G. Nievinski <fgnievinski>
Fri 10 Jan 2014 10:38:12 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Ehm .... "...Should be..." ?
Who says what key bindings "should" have what functionality?

Just to put things in the proper perspective, the goal of the Octave project (the way I see it) is not to make a free (as in "free beer"), 1:1 Matlab clone out of Octave and blindly copy the GUI + look and feel.
Matlab compatibility in the sense of .m-files etc. running without (too many) changes is indeed an Octave project goal.

With that confusion out of the way, it may be (just a guess) that the GUI developers first want to implement configurable key shortcuts before adding other functionality.
The things you mention are already in the picture.

As to F9, 2 minutes ago it still worked for me ;-)

The "evaluate section" is a little more complicated.
Octave (also) recognizes '#' for comment lines and in fact, Octave's coding style prescribes '##' (double hashes) to start comment lines.
So we'd first have to think up a way to properly implement sections so that it works with the Octave coding style.

(operating system set to "any" as key bindings aren't limited to Windows)

Philip Nienhuis <philipnienhuis>
Group Member
Thu 09 Jan 2014 09:42:55 PM UTC, original submission:  

Great to have finally a default GUI!
I use the build from http://octave.osuv.de/3.8/windows/octave-3.8.0-1-installer.exe

I miss shortcuts especially for:
Toggle Breakpoint (Should be F12)
Evaluate current selection (Should be F9)
Evaluate section (sections are separated by %% )(Should be Ctrl + Enter)

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2014-01-16 jordigh Dependencies- Depends on bugs #41217
        Dependencies- Depends on bugs #41199
        Dependencies- Depends on bugs #40156
    2014-01-16 ttl StatusNone Duplicate
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2014-01-10 philipnienhuis Operating SystemMicrosoft Windows Any

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