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Co-incdently I went to Preferences in Calibre this morning and edited or deleted any Keyboard shortcuts that:
1. Plain key or shifted key. Because so annoying when focus accidentaly changed and you think you are entering text.
2. Use Ctri-Alt because Alt-Gr can mean that. On my OS layout altgr b =” and altgr B =’, but it was executing commands in some parts of Calibre.
So now only ctrl, alt, ctl-shift, alt-shift.
Still not sure why in Editor — and – work in the code window (Compose --- and Compose --.) but not the Search & Replace boxes. I have to type in code window Ctrl x then ctrl p in string box.
By default on Linux the AltGr key does more than windows αινσϊ ΑΙΝΣΪ; virtually every printable key gives extra characters which are used in Western Europe. Compose also allows accenting letters with every sort of diacritic. I added Compose g* and Compose G* for lower and upper Greek.
The CapsLock is mapped to Compose and if I really want CapsLock it's both shift keys.
It's the IBM/MS way that's bad, especially IBM USA Minimal keyboard with one less printing character key. It's based on a 1928 Teletype.
I'm no Apple fan, but they did make some effort, though why they didn't make keyboard more like Unix/Solaris from iMac onwards is odd.
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