Comments on: Multi-stroke Key Bindings

By: David G. Kay

David G. Kay — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:23:12 +0000

Hello;

I have remapped my keyboard using DefaultKeyBinding.dict; my bindings are similar in flavor to Emacs (though not the same keys). They work fine in TextEdit and XPad; they work mostly fine in Mail and Pages.

But in TextMate, it appears to me that the Mark and Select-to-Mark commands aren't implemented; at least, my bindings for them just give me an invalid-keystroke beep. Am I missing something, or are there plans to implement these in the future?

Thanks,

--DGK

By: Eric C

Eric C — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 05:22:54 +0000

Hello and thanks for this tip. Being able to reproduce the Mac modifier key glyphs will be most helpful supporting Mac newbs which I do a lot of. Just one thing I wanted to mention is that you must install the DefaultKeyBinding.dict file at the user level i.e. ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict if you install it at the domain level i.e. /Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict it will not work. Thanks again.

By: grant

grant — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 04:01:54 +0000

If you already have a DefaultKeyBinding.dict in XML format, add this to it:

^m

    ^ 
    
        insertText:
        ␣
    
    ^e
    
        insertText:
        ↩
    
    e
    
        insertText:
        ⌅
    
    ^t
    
        insertText:
        ⇥
    
    t
    
        insertText:
        ⇤
    
    ^d
    
        insertText:
        ⌫
    
    d
    
        insertText:
        ⌦
    
    ^a
    
        insertText:
        ⌘
    
    ^o
    
        insertText:
        ⌥
    
    ^c
    
        insertText:
        ⌃
    
    ^s
    
        insertText:
        ⇧
    
    s
    
        insertText:
        ⇪
    
    ^b
    
        insertText:
        ←
    
    ^f
    
        insertText:
        →
    
    ^p
    
        insertText:
        ↑
    
    ^n
    
        insertText:
        ↓
    
    f
    
        insertText:
        ⇠
    
    b
    
        insertText:
        ⇢
    
    p
    
        insertText:
        ⇡
    
    n
    
        insertText:
        ⇣
    
    ^h
    
        insertText:
        ↖
    
    h
    
        insertText:
        ↘
    
    ^u
    
        insertText:
        ⇞
    
    u
    
        insertText:
        ⇟
    
    ^x
    
        insertText:
        ⎋
    
    x
    
        insertText:
        ⏏

By: marios

marios — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 03:03:33 +0000

Cancel, that one was the tab glyph, I just confused the Glyphs, so ignore my previous post.

regards, marios

By: marios

marios — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 03:01:01 +0000

Hey, guess what. when I type the T key afterwards, the Glyph suddenly gets inserted. I am using a wireless Microsoft keyboard on my Mac Mini, so problems do sometimes occur. But that one is alien to me. Strange though.

regards, marios

By: marios

marios — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 02:50:14 +0000

@Allan,

Hmm, I checked and used ⌃M + ⌃E. But still no go, that's the only key binding, that doesn't work. Regarding the other question, may be I didn't formulate it correctly.

What I meant: How fantastic would it be, if you could insert these Glyphs with another hidden key binding, that would insert the Glyph as entity right away. Would it be possible, to extend the dictionary for that, or with a script of some sort ?

regards, marios

By: Allan Odgaard

Allan Odgaard — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 01:04:02 +0000

Mario: That error is when you press ⌃M + ⌃E?

More likely you press ⌃⇧E and get the “Execute Line as Ruby” and the error just relates to what Ruby will give if treating your current line as Ruby.

As for HTML entities: Have a look in the Entities submenu of the HTML bundle, it has most of these glyphs as well using tab triggers.

By: marios

marios — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 23:32:24 +0000

Very useful. One question: I haven’t tested all Glyphs yet, but on the return key I get an error:

/tmp/temp_textmate.3Fofq9:68:in `+': 
  cannot convert nil into String (TypeError)
  from /tmp/temp_textmate.3Fofq9:68

using the suggested key sequence. I checked, wether I have a dict file for key-bindings, but I couldn’t find any.

One other question: what would one best do, to have a key-sequence, that inserts those as Unicode html entities in one go ?

(I also think that this is very helpful for many folks)

regards, marios

By: guerom00

guerom00 — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:23:39 +0000

@ Jacob : you're right. The two are indeed compatible. Thanks.

By: Jacob Rus

Jacob Rus — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 02:30:03 +0000

Martin: you don't need to use a mark to go forward and back I don't think. Instead you just want:

"(" = ("insertText:", "()", "moveBackward:");

etc.