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snarkophilus · 01-03-2020, 02:29 AM

Not sure to keep using this thread or start another for wishlist ideas for Sigil. So let's start here for now.

A couple of little keyboard ideas from NotePad++ that I would find handy:

Content sensitive home key - if you press home you go to the start of any text, then a second home takes you to the start of the line. Granted this might be annoying if you are used to the current Sigil way. Maybe could be implemented as two new keyboard shortcuts - one the existing "Home to start of line" behaviour that would be default mapped to the Home key and a new context sensitive "Home to start of line/start of text" that you could assign to the Home key instead.
Multiline indent/de-indent with TAB/shift-TAB - instead of using Ctrl-Alt-M to indent, you can highlight multiple lines and indent/de-indent with TAB/shift-tab. The way NotePad++ does this seems like it need something smarter than a simple keyboard shortcut - if the text that is highlighted is a single line it acts like a normal tab, but if it spans multiple lines it indents. Conversely shift-TAB doesn't seem to do anything.

Happy for a "no way" to either of these. But you never know if you don't ask

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01-03-2020, 02:29 AM	#8
snarkophilus Wannabe Connoisseur Posts: 426 Karma: 2516674 Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Geelong, Australia Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura 2, Sony PRS-T1, Sony PRS-350, Palm TX	Not sure to keep using this thread or start another for wishlist ideas for Sigil. So let's start here for now. A couple of little keyboard ideas from NotePad++ that I would find handy: Content sensitive home key - if you press home you go to the start of any text, then a second home takes you to the start of the line. Granted this might be annoying if you are used to the current Sigil way. Maybe could be implemented as two new keyboard shortcuts - one the existing "Home to start of line" behaviour that would be default mapped to the Home key and a new context sensitive "Home to start of line/start of text" that you could assign to the Home key instead. Multiline indent/de-indent with TAB/shift-TAB - instead of using Ctrl-Alt-M to indent, you can highlight multiple lines and indent/de-indent with TAB/shift-tab. The way NotePad++ does this seems like it need something smarter than a simple keyboard shortcut - if the text that is highlighted is a single line it acts like a normal tab, but if it spans multiple lines it indents. Conversely shift-TAB doesn't seem to do anything. Happy for a "no way" to either of these. But you never know if you don't ask .