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Feature request: Change strange keyboard assignment for "goto beginning/end of line" #44

Open rovf opened 1 year ago

rovf commented 1 year ago

This is for geany 1.38 on MacOS.

On the Mac, the commonly used key combination for placing the cursor to the start and end of the line is

command+cursor_left : Start of line
command+cursor_right : End of line

Command+cursor_right does not seem to have any effect in Geany. Checking the Keyboard assignments in the Geany Preferences, I can see that "Cursor start of the line" is assigned to "Home" and "Cursor end of the line" is assigned to "End".

The keys "Home" and "End" don't have a representation on the Mac keyboard. Of course I can re-assign those two functions to what I like, but I suggest that Geany for the Mac initially uses those key assignments which are commonly used on the Mac.

techee commented 1 year ago

Unfortunately we currently don't have a way to specify different keybindings for Linux, Windows, or macOS so they are identical for these platforms (not a big problem for Linux/Windows where the defaults don't differ too much but a bigger problem for macOS where the default keybindings are really different). There's an unfinished work in progress PR here:

https://github.com/geany/geany/pull/1395