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Old 10-16-2015, 04:10 PM   #16
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Others of us long ago realized that using Alt based shortcuts for any non-trivial UI is simply not scaleable, so we switched to applications that provide dedicated, customizable keyboard shortcuts.
I appreciate the issue, ambiguity between accelerators in panels such as the editor S&R panel and the menu bar/dropdown accelerators. Interestingly, it's an issue that the much maligned ribbon interface overcomes, via its single finger multiple keystroke sequences to action ribbon widgets

The ambiguity could be resolved if the S&R panel used something other than than "Find" as a label - "Search" would also be ambiguous, so how about "Locate".

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Old 10-16-2015, 11:24 PM   #17
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The problem is that while any individual ambiguity could be moderated, it's not maintainable. Sooner or later some other label in the UI will conflict, and then there is the whole issue of translations, where it becomes even harder for a translator of the UI to maintain unambiguous mnemonics. For any reasonably complex UI there are simply too many chances for collisions.
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