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Originally Posted by petzi
@fidvo, @BetterRed: I like the idea of a dummy book that have all the tags. But how do you work with it as a reference base? At the moment I am comparing my tags of a book with the tag browser, which is a bit cumbersome, as I must scroll up and down in the tag browser.
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I create an empty book (Ctrtl+Shift+E) with Author
Iron Gloves. All my Virtual libraries have
(authors:"=Iron Gloves") or at the start of their search expression. Its main purpose is to retain the VL even though it might otherwise be empty. I also load it with all the Tag values so that the drop down list always has all values - although shift/F2 (a fairly recent enhancement) obviates the need for that.
"Iron Gloves" was Rod Marsh's nickname, Rod was the Australian wicket keeper (cricket) some years ago.
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Originally Posted by petzi
I know about the small icon beside the tags field in the edit metadata window. But that's all I know. Do you mean with "Book List" the main view? (Indeed it would be helpful to have the tag editor in main window at hand.) But I couldn't reproduce this, neither with Shift+F2 nor otherwise. Could you give more details?
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Yes I refer to the list in the middle of main screen as the Book List, not sure if it has an 'official' name.
Can you hit F2 on a Title cell and get into edit mode? If not, then maybe that's why Shift/F2 doesn't work for you. AFAIK F2 and Shift+F2 should work by default.
The only way to make F2 and/or Shift F2 not work would be to assign them to something else in Keyboard Preferences. I can't see anything in Keyboard Shortcuts where the Book List usage of F2 and Shift+F2 is defined, so maybe they're hard coded.
If you didn't knowingly reassign F2 or Shift/F2, check to see if any of the installed optional plugins have hijacked them. If you look in the <calibre configuration directory>/shortcuts/main.json file for 'F2' that might give you a clue.
What operating system are you using? I use Windows, other OS keyboard behaviour
may be different.
BR