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Shift+4 should show $ not 4 #60

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Would be nice if some keys showed the final key instead of the lowercase key.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by scottaki...@gmail.com on 7 Oct 2010 at 11:22

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by scottaki...@gmail.com on 7 Oct 2010 at 11:23

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Hi! For me that wouldn't be good, as I'm mainly using it for Blender tutorials, 
and there Shift+4 or Ctrl+4 or Shift+Ctrl+4 mean exactly that! (all related to 
selecting the layer 4). So a "$" symbol might be confusing for people following 
the tutorial.

Original comment by simonett...@gmail.com on 20 Oct 2010 at 3:46

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What I really think is that it should have an option to enable and disable this 
option.

Original comment by fernando...@gmail.com on 20 Oct 2010 at 2:52

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
OK, that would work for me, but I don't get why would showing the result would 
be useful. I think that what you want to show are the keys you are pressing 
during some process other than write (where you can see the outcome on screen). 
In what scenario are you needing that functionality? (I'm just curious!!! not 
trying to be annoying, sorry if I was). I know this is not a blog, so if my 
comment is out of place, please delete/ignore.

Original comment by simonett...@gmail.com on 21 Oct 2010 at 12:44

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I think it would be nice because different keyboard layouts do not
have all the keys we get when combined with SHIFT in the same place.
For example, in br_abnt2 The " (double quote) is together with the
' (single quote) key.

To illustrate, in Vim, typing 0 does something different than typing ) (which 
we get holding Shift while hitting 0), or " and ' also do very different 
things. Notice that 0 and ) are in the same key and so do " and ' for example.

Here we have some examples (screenshots) of in how different positions
"shift-keys" are placed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout

Original comment by fernando...@gmail.com on 21 Oct 2010 at 11:51

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
showing the key label might be useful with --old-keys:
then you can better see what you've typed.

Original comment by susefroh on 11 Nov 2010 at 11:54

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I am thinking this should be merged into Issue 46.

Original comment by livibet...@gmail.com on 15 Aug 2011 at 2:53

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
merge reason will be stated in Issue 72.

Original comment by livibet...@gmail.com on 18 Aug 2011 at 4:08