keyboard shortcuts

Jan Mulder jlmulder at xs4all.nl
Wed Feb 22 08:52:49 PST 2017


On 22-02-17 16:48, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
>
> The odd thing is that we have two "levels" of shortcuts and that's what's
> confusing.
>
> One are the official shortcuts (Ctrl-D to download, Ctrl-L to plan =
> substitute Cmd for Ctrl on the Mac). And then we have the "in menu"
> shortcuts - and those are truly ill maintained.
>
> In Linux, when you hold down the Alt key, you'll see that certain letters
> in the menu are underlined, using those letters you can now run Subsurface
> with just the keyboard. So, Alt-F opens the File menu, a subsequent Alt-R
> opens the P_references.

The Alt key thing is an eye opener for me. Indeed, on my Linux version, 
the Alt key shows the underlined shortcut character. I think, some time 
ago, this underline was always present (so without using the Alt key to 
explicitly show them). This is, however, not relevant for now.

best,

--jan


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