Sigil-2.7.0 Released

[philja]

Originally Posted by hobnail

I didn't see this answered. I'm also not getting replace all when I use alt+a. The Search menu shows alt+a as the shortcut for replace all. Clicking the replace all button in the find and replace at the bottom of the code view window works.

On my MacBook, the given shortcut for replace all is Ctrl+Alt+A. Now you might say you're on Windows. But then the MacBook shortcuts all seem to be in Windows language. I've said before that it's not very helpful for a Mac user.

Usually Ctrl on Windows equates to Cmd on Mac but I didn't know Alt=Opt. I'm only a recent Mac user.

On my Mac, it's Opt+Cmd+A which replaces all.

Try Ctrl+Alt+A on Windows.

[ElMiko]

Originally Posted by philja

On my MacBook, the given shortcut for replace all is Ctrl+Alt+A. Now you might say you're on Windows. But then the MacBook shortcuts all seem to be in Windows language. I've said before that it's not very helpful for a Mac user.

Usually Ctrl on Windows equates to Cmd on Mac but I didn't know Alt=Opt. I'm only a recent Mac user.

On my Mac, it's Opt+Cmd+A which replaces all.

Try Ctrl+Alt+A on Windows.

Unless you go into preferences, and change the keyboard shortcut to Ctrl+Alt+A, it won't do anything.... unless of course it's already assigned to something else, in which case it'll do that.

The issue that hobnail and I are having is that in Sigil's preferences it is explicityly assigned to Alt+A, but the program doesn't honor it. For me, it opens the Automation menu instead. Basically it doesn't distinguish between "Alt, A" and "Alt + A". The same issue would arise for any shortcuts assigned to "Alt +(F,E,I,M,S,T,V,W,PK, or H)"

[KevinH]

Is there any difference when using the left alt versus the right alt key?

There were no changes in shortcuts in the code so maybe adding a high level Automation menu is causing the issue on Windows? Is Alt A a windows built in way way to get to the menu?

If so, perhaps changing the shortcut for replace all would work around the issue.

I thought we removed all Alt+ shortcuts as defaults on Windows quite a long time ago.

[KevinH]

Originally Posted by philja

But then the MacBook shortcuts all seem to be in Windows language. I've said before that it's not very helpful for a Mac user.

Usually Ctrl on Windows equates to Cmd on Mac but I didn't know Alt=Opt. I'm only a recent Mac user.

And I already explained that this is standard practice on MacOS for cross-platform Qt software like Sigil. It makes standard copy and paste and cut sequences universal across platforms. It will not be changed as there are long term Sigil MacOS users that have used it and expect it for over 10 years (me included).

[KevinH]

I looked at the Sigil code and there are no ALT+ a Letter default shortcuts set and used by Sigil anymore, not for a long time. There is no default accelerator used on the Automation high level menu either.

So you once set ALT+A to be the Replace All key sequence in your Sigil prefs and then later versions of Sigil inherited that via ini files. No new user installs will see that. Windows is what is interpreting your ALT A differently now that there is an Automation menu. MacOS does not use menu accelerators like that.

So you will need to assign a new shortcut that does not clash with Windows menu accelerators.

[hobnail]

Originally Posted by KevinH

So you once set ALT+A to be the Replace All key sequence in your Sigil prefs and then later versions of Sigil inherited that via ini files. No new user installs will see that. Windows is what is interpreting your ALT A differently now that there is an Automation menu. MacOS does not use menu accelerators like that.

So you will need to assign a new shortcut that does not clash with Windows menu accelerators.

Ok, thanks. That makes sense. I'll figure out a new key combo.

[philja]

I've just had a chance to check with my linux and W11 boxes on the shortcut for replace all.

All my boxes are on the latest 2.7.0 Sigil. The Sigil Preferences in the W11 box shows Ctrl+Alt +A as the setting for replace all. This agrees as I thought it would with the Windows language used in the preferences in the MacBook. And when tested, it works on Mac and W11.

However, the latest Linux AppImage preferences does have Alt+A shown as the 'replace all' setting.

I have never changed that shortcut because 'replace all' is something I avoid.

When I test it in linux, Alt-A makes the automation entry on the menu bar display the 'manage automation lists' option but without opening the dialogue.

I can't find any combination of Ctrl, Alt, and A that will make the 'replace all' work in linux (and I'm not about to set up a keyboard shortcut myself to do that).

[KevinH]

Any new installs without an existing ini settings file will not have a default shortcut set for replace all on any platform as far as I can tell based on the source code.