More keyboard shortcuts would be handy - especially one for Change Case that would toggle between lower case, title case and all caps like the Word shortcut.
Oh, wait, though, there’s a Change Case app for the Services menu anyway. Hm.
Hi,
Scrivener already has an abundance of keyboard shortcuts - there’s not many left!
But did you know that you can set your own keyboard shortcuts for most Cocoa programs anyway, using the System Preferences? Here’s how:
literatureandlatte.com/wiki/ … _Shortcuts
Hope that helps.
All the best,
Keith
Is there a shortcut for Page Down and Page Up.
I used to use Wordstar and the shortcuts were Ctrl-C and Ctrl-R (Down and Up). I can’t seem to find an equivalent shortcut on Scrivener (or any Cocoa product). Is it possible to create one.
Thanks.
Don
PS: GREAT product. I am really looking forward to Version 2.
Here is a handy list of Mac OS X editing shortcuts. There are a number of “Emacs style” shortcuts, which allow simple Ctrl-Something access so you don’t have to leave the home row to use arrow keys and such. Ctrl-V will move down a page, amusingly I cannot find a move page up command that doesn’t rely on the distant PageUp key or arrows.
Anywhere, here is the link to the FAQ answer for this one. You can add new bindings, so long as Cocoa has a hook for it. You might even find a WordStar bindings configuration already created, too.
Thanks, Kevin, er, Keith - I’ll read that when my mind returns; it has unexpectedly been replaced by my nose, as the first cold of autumn leaves me blooming alone.
QuicKeys and other “macros” programs can work wonders in solving these little problems, too.
But they can do much more than just assigning a missing keystroke. For example, a very simple — but fabulously useful — sequence I’ve set up in QuicKeys converts the up and down arrow keys into up and down arrows keys plus “jump to selection” keys: now when I press the arrows to move through the text, the insertion point is automatically centered in the middle of the editor screen; something similar can be done with option-up and option-down for scrolling paragraphs. Now I never “crash” into the top or the bottom of the editor window.
I have set up so many QuicKeys sequences for Scrivener that even though I’m drooling for V.2.0 like everyone else, I dread having to reconfigure them all (everything depends on how many menus or built-in shortcuts in Scrivener have changed). I would be interested to hear how other QuicKeys users work with it in Scrivener. I am also willing to share/post my own sequences, if anyone is interested. (For example: I’ve created single keystroke sequences to navigate incrementally up and down binder items and then automatically return to the editor: no need for separate keystroking [or mousing over] to navigate from the editor to the binder, followed by locating the required binder item, and then navigating back to the editor.)
Apologies for posting something ridiculously obvious, but what about the Page Up and Page Down keys or, for those of us using the newer Mac keyboards, Fn+Up and Fn+Down arrows?
Nom, something a lot of people got used to back “in the good old days” is being able to jump around in your text without having to move your hands off of the homerow. You could do everything conceivable with a combination of letter and modifier keys. This was never a major priority with the Mac, which favoured heavy mouse usage over keyboard usage. Old-school Macs, well you had to have that rat strapped to your hand non-stop to do pretty much anything.
With Mac OS X, that changed a little, as it acquired some UNIX (and thus keyboard biased (to the point of religious) code) commands in its text system. You can do things like Ctrl-e to jump to the end of a paragraph, for example. Some people really do prefer this stuff, I suppose I’m one of them. I cringe every time I have to move my right hand all the way over to the arrow keys or those PageUp/Down keys. It’s almost as bad as reaching for the mouse. 
I’m familiar with the good old days: Wordstar was my word processor of choice in my undergraduate days (I can’t remember what I used before it - green screens and frustration come to mind) and I was always pointing out the keyboard shortcuts to family members (Ctrl-A, S, D, F - just thinking about Wordstar brings them back). Given that history, I no longer assume that people are familiar with built in shortcuts. Hence my post.
Personally, I hate being forced to use a mouse when a simple key-tap will do the trick - I’m always amazed to see people take their hands off the keys and use a mouse to select bold or italics when they could just keep typing. As for having to move my hand to the arrows keys - I don’t even notice. Now that my wireless keyboard is the same as my MBP, it’s just muscle memory to use the arrows keys (and modifiers). I get so frustrated when they don’t work when I have to use Windows.
Yes, my argument definitely carries less weight on a MB or MBP. The arrow keys, and consequently the home/end/pgup/pgdown keys are all just two pinkie fingers away and you can keep typing. Likewise the “mouse” is right under your thumb. Frankly, I wish desktop computers had that kind of concise control. Has anyone tried using one of Apple’s compact keyboards in combination with their new gesture pad? Does the pad line up in such a way that it can be use with a thumb while typing?
Of course, my mechanical memory is wired to Vi, which is even more arcane and hyper-efficiency oriented than WordStar/Emacs/etc. I tried downloading a Cocoa hack that added vi control the text fields, but it was more trouble than worth, alas.
:#s/AmberV/Ioa/g
:w “forum posts by ioa.html”[/code]
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file -> open -> look for "forum posts by amberv.html" -> click open
cmd-f
AmberV
Ioa
click-Replace all
file -> save as -> rename -> click ok
File ->quitBut then I personally would do
perl -ep 's/AmberV/Ioa/g' < "forum posts by amber.html > "forum posts by ioa.html"which should explain just about everything.