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Originally Posted by petzi
@BetterRed
I use OSX and the F2 shortcut does not work for me. I checked all plugins.
To edit fields is sometimes a little cumbersome on OSX. The first click is selecting the book, the second one to start editing. But once your were in editing editing mode you must not click on the book again, it immediately opens the field you clicked one. You must hit "Enter" and Esc to get in the normal selecting mode again. I wonder if I am missing something here. I would appreciate a dedicated shortcut for editing mode but could not find one.
I played around a bit with your idea. As I do not have much experiences with VLs, I did not understand immediately why you mentioned VLs. But then I became aware that the tag browser displays only the tags occurrences for those book listed under a certain VL. And looking around for a drop down list I noticed the first time  that there is a menu displaying all tags you can choose from, independently from the VL and those shown in the tag browser. It is little embarrassing that I didn't know that before 
The only disadvantages with this drop down menu is, that after selecting one tag you have to open the menu again and to select the next one etc. Is there a way I have missed to display in the book list the little window ("Tag Editor"), where you can add tags transferring them from the left to the right side and removing them the other way round? |
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petzi - I must admit I'm somewhat surprised that F2 doesn't work on OSX.
See if this tweak helps - as you can see I have it set to 'do_nothing', that effectively disables the use of the mouse in the book list for anything other than selection - which suits me fine.
If you can get F2, then I'm sure you'll have Shift/F2 via which you can get the Tag Editor, viz
Once you get into edit mode in the book list, you should be able to tab/backtab to move to the next/previous cell, and stay in edit mode. What you say about selecting multiple items from the drop down list being awkward, is in part why chaley made the Tag Editor available via Shift/F2 in the book list.
No need to apologise for not knowing everything about calibre. We all regularly stumble on features we never knew existed, or rediscover features we've forgotten - even Kovid sometimes forgets a little nugget he himself wrote
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