I like the shortcut features in SCRIVENER very much and I am a heavy user of it.
But there seems to be a bug: when I want to change my “red” revisions into normal black color with the shortcut "Control + Option + “Ä”, SCRIV writes at the cursor point a special letter, that I don’t know: “ae”. But the two letters are joint together somehow as being only one letter . Can’t repeat it here on my German keyboard. The reset of the red color to black does not take place in that moment. Can somebody explain me, what this behavior means?
The crazy thing ist: it does not happen every time. I noticed, that it happens pretty often after a backup of my project. But there is no rule.
When I go through the menu bar and choose “remove revision color” it works always properly. But that is no solution for me, cause it takes much time. - I guess this is a bug which could be addressed in a new version.
Are you sure you are fully pressing the Control key every time? Because holding down Option and pressing keys will insert special characters (and Option + Shift will access more). If the base key you are using for this shortcut has the æ character assigned for your keyboard layout, that would explain it more simply, as well as why it doesn’t always seem to happen.
Thanks, AmberV. - You seem to be right. And if go go back in time for a few months, I understand what could have happened. Indeed I had a problem with my MacBookPro (Touch) from 2016. The “Control Key” lost it’s proper function. So I had to repair it. But this wasn’t possible, because Apple does not have replacement keys or keyboards anymore. They are out of production. - The nearly - thinner as a hair - inner mechanic of this key was broken. After two hours of watching and trying something, I found the solution. I put a drop of PATEX glue right in the middle of the elastic middle point (a little black hill that triggers the letter ) of the mechanism just under the key itself, let it dry for 10 minutes and put then the key onto the elastic middle point (not before covering the downside of the key with a thin layer of glue) and pressed for 5 seconds.
Since several month this works like a charm. But it has sometimes the effect of that “ae”, when I hit the key not exactly in the right place.
Now this problem is solved. What a luck! - Thanks, AmberV!