need to press ":" twice in order to see it appear

[dsc8x]

When i press ":" the first time nothing happens. But when I type it one more time the ":'" appears.

Note: I do not use a default US layout. To Type characters like {}():;<>[] I use the capslock key plus a normal letter. All those mappings work fine with atom, except of the ":" which is mapped to Capslok + g (g = key code 0x29)

[nathansobo]

• What layout are you using?
• If you run the key binding resolver from the command palette, what do you see when you type :?

[dsc8x]

1. I am using my own custom layout
2. http://take.ms/nMNkX that's what i see :)

[dsc8x]

Oh, right, and Capslock is mapped to ALT_L, so ALT_L + g produces ":" in my Layout.

[nathansobo]

Could you post your custom layout somewhere? That will help us reproduce the problem.

[dsc8x]

https://gist.github.com/epegzz/585158c5d88479edaa40

Here you go :-)

[dsc8x]

maybe related to https://github.com/atom/atom-keymap/issues/37 ?

[AfonsoFG]

The colon ( : ) is also not working on my keyboard either.

How come this bug is from 30 Jun 2014 and wasn't closed yet? After 1 hour using Atom I thought it was going to be this time I was leaving Brackets :| Such a small bug and so big the annoyances caused. Makes it impossible to write CSS...

[winstliu]

@penafo which keyboard layout are you using?

[dsc8x]

Sad to hear it's still not fixed. Was about to give Atom another try soon.

[winstliu]

@epegzz While I'm not sure #35 directly pertains to you, it might be worth it to subscribe there as the fix for #35 will probably fix your issue as well.

[dsc8x]

Yeah, just saw that myself, sounds promising. Any idea when the current electron branch will be used in another Atom release?

[winstliu]

There's currently no ETA. Right now we're trying to update to the latest 0.36.x version, and then we'll probably start updating to 0.37.x.

[AfonsoFG]

@50Wliu: Portuguese layout keyboard --> wikipedia image

I already commented on #35 the problem that was originating it.

Atom shouldn't allow external plugins to change users keyboard's "normal" keys in that manner.... allowing a plugin to change the function of a key as basic as the colon is going to kill the user-experience on Atom as a whole.

Why not forcing all 3rd party plugins to use ONLY something like CTRL+SHIFT+somthing for theirs shortcuts and prompting the user to change them in case on install a new plugin some shortcuts "collide" with already registered shortcuts?