Enhancement suggestion: Change default keyboard shortcut for Upper Case Selection

[chrisgeli]

This shortcut is (in the 12.0 alpha 3) ctrl+U which clashes with the default shortcut for Linux Unicode input, which makes the shortcut impossible to use in Textadept (the Unicode input takes precedence), at least on my Debian 12 system running XFCE.

Additional info:

$ find /opt/textadept/ -name '*.lua' -exec grep -Hi 'ctrl+U' {} \;
/opt/textadept/modules/textadept/keys.lua:-- Ctrl+U | ⌘U | ^U | Lower case selection
/opt/textadept/modules/textadept/keys.lua:-- Ctrl+Up | ⌥⇡ | ^Up | Paragraph up
/opt/textadept/modules/textadept/keys.lua:  [m('Edit/Selection/Upper Case Selection')] = {'ctrl+U', 'cmd+U', 'ctrl+meta+u'},
/opt/textadept/modules/textadept/keys.lua:  [m('Edit/Selection/Lower Case Selection')] = {'ctrl+u', 'cmd+u', 'ctrl+u'},
/opt/textadept/modules/textadept/keys.lua:  [buffer.para_up] = {'ctrl+up', 'alt+up', 'ctrl+up'},
/opt/textadept/core/keys.lua:--     keys['ctrl+u'] = function() io.quick_open(_USERHOME) end

Minor aside: The comment in core/keys.lua seems to be outdated.

For now, I mapped it as follows in my ~/.textadept/init.lua:

keys['ctrl+alt+u'] = textadept.menu.menubar[_L.Edit][_L.Selection][_L['Upper Case Selection']][2]

Thanks for your time!

[orbitalquark]

Thanks for the report. I will add an alias, likely either "Ctrl+Alt+U" or "Ctrl+Alt+Shift+U". My Kubuntu 22.04 does not hijack "Ctrl+Shift+U", so I didn't experience the clash.

[orbitalquark]

I've addressed this in https://github.com/orbitalquark/textadept/commit/3111f9ec4f9f8ca8d0f4cbe7f023ab564880f335