It would be nice when entering keywords if one could just right click with the mouse instead of having to go over to the ‘+’ sign. Speeds things up.
Thanks.
Don
Fastest way with the mouse is probably the gear menu, actually. Just click on that and you’ll be given a list of all the keywords in your project. If you are already on the mouse, that will let you stay on the mouse.
For pure keyboard entry (and what I would consider to be the absolute fastest way), focus the keyword list and just tap the Enter key. Auto-complete is there to take over the rest of the job. This is analogous with clicking the plus button. You can also use the delete key to invoke what the minus button does.
You can focus with the keyboard using Ctrl-Opt-Cmd-J from anywhere in the interface, or by clicking in the background of the keyword table with the mouse.
Sorry. For me Ctrl-Opt-Cmd-J doesn’t seem to work. Going to the keywords window and doing a right click would work for me best. I come from a Windows world and only recently have returned to Apple (my first computer was an Apple II, but was PC for most of the interim) and mouse-clicks have become ingrained.
What happens when you try it? I haven’t seen any problems with this shortcut beyond a very minor focus issue (in which it was actually being too aggressive with focusing instead of switching to view-only without disturbing the current focus position).
That aside, once you do get things showing up in the right inspector pane, what is wrong with clicking vaguely somewhere in that area and hitting return? That seems to be working fine for me, too.
That (clicking – Return) opens up a blank line to type in the keyword. What I would like is for the Right Mouse Click to bring up the Add Keywords list. Like going to the spiky wheel and clicking on it and then clicking on Add Keywords, but instead of going to the wheel and clicking twice, you just go into the inspector pane and right clicking.
It is not a big deal, and Scrivener (esp 2) is so good. I just want to make it a bit better (at least in my eyes).
Don
Okay, I see what you mean. Though that whole menu should probably be there instead of just one part of it because, by convention anyway, the gear menu is meant to be a contextual menu access point for people who never learned how to right-click or ctrl-click. I’m not the one approving features or modifications, but now that you put it that way it makes sense to me.
Actually gear menus don’t always appear as contextual menus, but as it’s four lines of code to make the gear menu appear as a contextual menu too, I’ve added this for 2.0.1.
Best,
Keith
THANK YOU!!
Don
Scriv 2.01 is just what I wanted. Thanks for the right click option.
Don
Glad you like it. 