Setup line break with shift-return?

Scrivener Scrivener for macOS
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Hi, I’m new to Scrivener and was wondering if anyone could tell me how I can set up line breaks to happen by pressing shift-return instead of control-return? I’m on a Mac.

Any help is much appreciated.

Paul

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Control-return is the standard Mac OS line break sequence. I have no idea how to override it. Sorry.

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You can just use the standard Mac override system:

osxdaily.com/2017/08/08/create-c … rtcut-mac/

Apply it specifically to Scrivener unless you want it to apply everywhere…

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Really? I would have thought that was like remapping the letter ‘a’. No criticism intended–but it’s not something I’d have tried–obviously, by my doofus answer. :slight_smile: I learn something new every day!

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Key remapping is a core part of the operating system, and IMO one of the main benefits of macOS!!! For example, I have remapped globally “Move to Trash” to F8, because it my muscle memory since I used DOS way back when. macOS provides a robust and supported method to customise at the application level or globally. If you want even more power to customise then tools like Alfred and BetterTouchTool can do even more, they use the underlying tools built in to the OS…

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An interesting side note on this: Because Shift-return is the combination in Word to insert a line break and a few users asked for the same in Scrivener, way back in 2.x’s history (or was it 1.x?) I made it so that Shift-return would insert line breaks in Scrivener.

It caused chaos.

It turned out that many fast typists hit the Shift key ready to type a capital letter at the start of the next paragraph at about the same time as they hit return to start the paragraph. The result was many, many support emails from users wondering why their text wasn’t formatted correctly when compiling ebooks and certain other formats, with paragraph formatting completely off. They had accidentally littered their text with line breaks instead of returns because of the way they typed.

We removed shift-return as a shortcut for line breaks shortly after and returned to the Apple standard. And I learned that Apple’s shortcut for this is well thought out!