Odd placement & keyboard shortcut error

Under the Covers · 12-15-2014, 12:31 AM

(1) When I use the mouse in the editor to select the tags from the toolbar above the current opened file of a book (any book), they're placed on either side of my cursor, which is what I want. However, when I use the Ctrl-7 keyboard shortcut, the opening tag is placed not at the cursor but way up at the end of the prior <body> tag with the closing tag just prior to the </body> tag below -- I couldn't figure out what happened at first, and it took me a while to locate them -- my cursor being on a blank line between existing paragraphs. I'd really prefer to use the keyboard method, but this really threw me. Is this difference intentional?

(I'm not a coder; I'm just trying to fix books to be readable on my reader, so please be gentle.)

(2) When I try to change the Ctrl-7 keyboard shortcut for those tags (or any shortcut in the editor, for that matter), I get an error message, no matter which (unused) keystroke combo I use:

Quote:

calibre, version 2.12.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: KeyError:u'set_to_default'

calibre 2.12 [64bit] isfrozen: True is64bit: True
Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '7', '6.1.7601')
Python 2.7.8
Windows: ('7', '6.1.7601', 'SP1', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Successfully initialized third party plugins: Webscription && Fantastic Fiction && Manage Sony x50 Reader Book List && Open With && Manage Series && Reading List && Read MP3 AudioBook metadata && Quality Check && Search The Internet && Count Pages && User Category && Walk Search History && Quick Preferences && Search From Clipboard && Hyphenate This! && Annotations && View Manager && Modify ePub && FictionDB && Find Duplicates && Extract ISBN && Generate Cover && DOC Input && EpubMerge && EpubSplit && Resize Cover
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\tweak_book\preferences.py", line 683, in accept
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\keyboard.py", line 646, in commit
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\keyboard.py", line 274, in commit
KeyError: u'set_to_default'

kovidgoyal · 12-15-2014, 12:44 PM

The change paragraph to heading function (which is what I believe you are talking about) is used to change the surrounding parapraph to a heading or to a from a <div> it is not meant to insert a .

The shortcut for insert tag is

Ctrl+<

So you would need to type in

Ctrl+< -- p -- enter

to insert

Under the Covers · 12-15-2014, 02:24 PM

Thanks, Kovid, for that explanation. As to the other, why can I not change any of the editor keyboard shortcuts without getting that error message?

BetterRed · 12-15-2014, 03:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Under the Covers

(2) When I try to change the Ctrl-7 keyboard shortcut for those tags (or any shortcut in the editor, for that matter), I get an error message, no matter which (unused) keystroke combo I use:

Quote:

calibre, version 2.12.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: KeyError:u'set_to_default'

calibre 2.12 [64bit] isfrozen: True is64bit: True
Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '7', '6.1.7601')
Python 2.7.8
Windows: ('7', '6.1.7601', 'SP1', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Successfully initialized third party plugins: Webscription && Fantastic Fiction && Manage Sony x50 Reader Book List && Open With && Manage Series && Reading List && Read MP3 AudioBook metadata && Quality Check && Search The Internet && Count Pages && User Category && Walk Search History && Quick Preferences && Search From Clipboard && Hyphenate This! && Annotations && View Manager && Modify ePub && FictionDB && Find Duplicates && Extract ISBN && Generate Cover && DOC Input && EpubMerge && EpubSplit && Resize Cover
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\tweak_book\preferences.py", line 683, in accept
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\keyboard.py", line 646, in commit
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\keyboard.py", line 274, in commit
KeyError: u'set_to_default'

@cognoscenti

- I'm surprised that editor sees all those PI's, would have thought it would only see Editor PI's eg - Diaps Editing Toolbag, also there's no ignore-plugins option in the edit-ebook command.

@Under the Covers - try installing calibre portable (with no optional PI's) and see if you can change the editors kb shortcuts, then install Diaps Toolbag and see what happens.

I dunno why, but I have an inkling that the problem maybe a caused by one or more of those GUI PI's.

BR

Under the Covers · 12-15-2014, 04:30 PM

Hmmm, dang ..... removing a number of add-ins and the bad stuff, too -- I've needed to do that for some time now -- I'd been thinking I needed to remove a number of the plug-ins; I'm certainly not using many of them anymore. Let me try that first -- incl. Diaps Toolbag -- before attempting a portable install (not sure I even have room on my flash drives).

BetterRed · 12-15-2014, 07:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Under the Covers

Let me try that first -- incl. Diaps Toolbag -- before attempting a portable install (not sure I even have room on my flash drives).

@Under the Covers - don't worry about a thumb drive, you can 'install' portable anywhere on a hard drive (eg C:\). Because it's self contained it will NOT interfere with your installed version, use the existing configuration (that's where the PIs are), or even see your libraries - its about 230MB.

And you can run the editor direct from C:\Calibre Portable\Calibre\ebook-edit.exe - double click or enter, or drop an epub on it - kaboom

To uninstall portable, just trash the C:\Calibre Portable\ folder

BR

Under the Covers · 12-15-2014, 08:10 PM

Quote:

@Under the Covers - don't worry about a thumb drive, you can 'install' portable anywhere on a hard drive (eg C:\). Because it's self contained it will NOT interfere with your installed version, use the existing configuration (that's where the PIs are), or even see your libraries - its about 230MB.

And you can run the editor direct from C:\Calibre Portable\Calibre\ebook-edit.exe - double click or enter, or drop an epub on it - kaboom

To uninstall portable, just trash the C:\Calibre Portable\ folder

Ah, thanks for the brief reminder tutorial. I'm working tonight, but I'll most definitely give it a try. I've wondered about setting it up before.

Also, uninstalling Diaps Toolbag seems to have done the trick re creating keyboard shortcuts. So now I can quickly switch text to all caps, etc. Yay! Thanks for your help; it is most appreciated, BR.

BetterRed · 12-19-2014, 01:54 AM

@Under the Covers - as you probably know the problem wasn't in Diap's Toolbag it was in the calibre bore, should be rectified in calibre 2.13 - maybe you could reinstall and give it a go

BR

DiapDealer · 12-19-2014, 09:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BetterRed

@Under the Covers - as you probably know the problem wasn't in Diap's Toolbag it was in the calibre bore, should be rectified in calibre 2.13 - maybe you could reinstall and give it a go

BR

That's a bit harsh. I don't find calibre a bore at all.

Under the Covers · 12-22-2014, 02:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BetterRed

@Under the Covers - as you probably know the problem wasn't in Diap's Toolbag it was in the calibre bore, should be rectified in calibre 2.13 - maybe you could reinstall and give it a go

BR

Thanks for the info, BR, and I have now reinstalled it.

12-15-2014, 12:44 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,843 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	The change paragraph to heading function (which is what I believe you are talking about) is used to change the surrounding parapraph to a heading or to a <p> from a <div> it is not meant to insert a <p></p>. The shortcut for insert tag is Ctrl+< So you would need to type in Ctrl+< -- p -- enter to insert <p></p>

12-15-2014, 04:30 PM	#5
Under the Covers Night Reader Posts: 127 Karma: 4314 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Rocky Mountains (US) Device: Sony PRS-650	Hmmm, dang ..... removing a number of add-ins and the bad stuff, too -- I've needed to do that for some time now -- I'd been thinking I needed to remove a number of the plug-ins; I'm certainly not using many of them anymore. Let me try that first -- incl. Diaps Toolbag -- before attempting a portable install (not sure I even have room on my flash drives). Last edited by Under the Covers; 12-15-2014 at 04:38 PM.

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12-15-2014, 02:24 PM	#3
Under the Covers Night Reader Posts: 127 Karma: 4314 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Rocky Mountains (US) Device: Sony PRS-650	Thanks, Kovid, for that explanation. As to the other, why can I not change any of the editor keyboard shortcuts without getting that error message?

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BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 20,553 Karma: 26954694 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@Under the Covers - as you probably know the problem wasn't in Diap's Toolbag it was in the calibre bore, should be rectified in calibre 2.13 - maybe you could reinstall and give it a go BR