Keyboard ShortCuts reference:
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(see also the HTML online documentation, or the Launcher's "Settings-Keyboard" dialog).
For Smalltalkers, the most useful key first:
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Pause/Break is the UserInterrupt key: "interrupt & enter debugger"
CTRL-. and also CMD-. do the same, for all those used to VW or Squeak
Attention: Recent Changes:
F2 Was changed from CodeCompletion to Rename (for win32 compatibility);
If you don't like that, see & edit the "keyboard.rc" file.
CTRL-SPACE still works for completion.
ALT-SPACE snippet insertion has been added (try typing <t><s><ALT-SPACE>)
Notice1:
for most systems: the CMD-key is mapped to the left ALT-key.
This includes the Mac, where currently the Apple-CMD key is used
by Xquartz (which is a little annoying at times).
Notice2:
case matters; CMD-a is different from CMD-A (CMD-Shift-a)
case matters; Ctrl-a is different from Ctrl-A (Ctrl-Shift-a)
Notice3:
the settings are defined during startup, by reading the
file: "keyboard.rc".
In our lab, we are working across all kinds of systems (windows,
osx, linux), but always in Smalltalk. So the keyboard settings
are set to be the same across them. Therefore, some keys behave
different from the native OS's standard.
If you don't like the settings, change them!
Notice4:
You can add your own keyboard macros and/or change the shortKey
mapping, by modifying the file "keyboard.rc" (make a save copy first).
The either restart ST/X, or file-in the modified one.
Default Function Key Mapping (see "keyboard.rc" for details):
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Unix Windows Function
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CMD-a CTRL-s Accept / Save (compile or save)
CMD-b CTRL-b Backward search (selection or previous search pattern)
CMD-c CTRL-c Copy
CMD-d CTRL-d DoIt (evaluate selection)
CMD-f Forward search (selection or previous search pattern)
CMD-g CTRL-g Goto lineNumber
CMD-h F1 Help (= explain)
CMD-i CTRL-q InspectIt
CMD-m CMD-m select up to Matching parenthesis
CMD-p CTRL-p PrintIt (evaluate selection and paste result)
CMD-r CTRL-r Replace
CMD-s CTRL-f Search (open search dialog)
CMD-v CTRL-v Paste
CMD-w CMD-w Select Word under cursor
CMD-x CTRL-x Cut
CMD-z CMD-z PopUpMenu
CTRL-z Undo
CTRL-y Redo
CMD-A CTRL-a Select All
CMD-B CTRL-B BrowseIt
CMD-L CTRL-F2 Enter/leave Learn-macro mode (CMD-M to replayMacro)
CMD-M CMD-F2 Execute keyboard Macro (CMD-L to learn)
CMD-S CMD-S Save as (a file)
CMD-Tab Focus next (unless eaten by windowManager)
CMD-Cursor Focus next/previous (unless eaten by windowManager)
CMD-. Interrupt - enter debugger
BREAK Interrupt - enter debugger
CTRL-BREAK Interrupt - abort operation. do not enter debugger
CMD-Y Interrupt - abort operation. do not enter debugger
CTRL-Tab Backtab
Shift-Tab Non-inserting tab (cursor movement only)
Shift-Return Non-inserting return (cursor movement only)
HOME HOME Goto begin of line
POS1 POS1 Goto begin of line
END END Goto end of line
Ctrl-HOME Ctrl-HOME Goto begin of page/text (press twice for begin of text)
Ctrl-POS1 Ctrl-POS1 Goto begin of page/text (press twice for begin of text)
Ctrl-END Ctrl-END Goto end of page/text (press twice for end of text)
CTRL-g CTRL-g Goto line (opens a dialog for the line-number)
Shift-HOME Shift-HOME Select from begin of line
Shift-POS1 Shift-POS1 Select from begin of line
Shift-END Shift-END Select to end of line
CTRL-W CTRL-W Forward to end-of this / begin of next word
CTRL-w CTRL-w Forward to begin next word
CTRL-l CTRL-l Goto line
CTRL-A CTRL-A Select from begin of text
CTRL-E CTRL-E Select from end of text
CTRL-X CTRL-X Flush (trow away) typeahead input
CTRL-2 Enclose the selected text in parenthesis / remove parenthesis
CTRL-9 Enclose the selected text in parenthesis / remove parenthesis
CTRL-SPACE CodeCompletion (in the browser only)
ALT-SPACE Insert Abbreviation (try <ALT-SPACE> behind the string 'it')
CMD-- Open SpecialCharacterWindow (CMD-<minus>)
F2 F2 Rename (used to be: CodeCompletion)
F3 F3 Comment selection
F4 F4 Uncomment Selection
F6 F6 Selection to Lowercase/Uppercase/UpperCaseFirst (toggle through)
CTRL-F6 CTRL-F6 Selection to UpperCase
F8 F8 Again (repeat last cut/replace)
F9 F9 Undent by 4
F10 F10 Indent by 4
F11 F11 Undent by 1
F12 F12 Indent by 1
PageUp PageUp Backward one page
PageDown PageDown Forward one page
Insert Insert Paste
Delete Delete Delete the selection
Shift-Delete Delete followup spaces up to the next non-space
Special (national) Characters:
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There is a virtual keyboard found on the popUpMenu, under "others"-"others"-"special keys".
Keep this view open, beside your editor and click on a character to insert it.
Unix only:
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The right CTRL-key is used as a Compose key
(this can be changed in the "keyboard.rc" file).
Composed national characters are entered as a 3-character sequence:
COMPOSE key1 key2
press them in sequence - not at the same.
For example, the french e-accentGrave is entered as:
COMPOSE e `
and the german ä (umlaut-a) is entered as:
COMPOSE a "
A full list is found in the Method "WindowSensor initializeComposeKeyTable".
Alternatively, special characters can be copy/pasted from the following list:
(Notice: you can also use a font-display via the text-editors
'more'-'tools'-'specialCharacters'
menu to insert any special character)
acute:
Á É Í Ó Ú Ý á é í ó ú ý [ Compose <char> ' ]
grave:
À È Ì Ò Ù à è ì ò ù [ Compose <char> ` ]
circumflex:
Â Ê Î Ô Û â ê î ô û [ Compose <char> ^ ]
tilde:
Ã Õ Ñ ã õ ñ [ Compose <char> ~ ]
dieresis:
Ä Ë Ï Ö Ü ä ë ï ö ü ÿ [ Compose <char> " ]
slash:
Ø ø [ Compose <char> / ]
ring:
Å å [ Compose <char> * ]
cedille:
Ç ç [ Compose <char> , ]
ligatures:
ß Æ æ [ Compose <char1> <char1> ]
others:
Ð Þ þ ð × ÷ ± µ ¬ « » ° º ¹ ² ³ ¼ ½ ¾
misc:
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