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Simple 'fix' for undocumented hotkeys
So many issues have touched upon hotkeys being difficult to discover. It was revealing to see someone mention that toggling the Alt key was one partial method. Nice...
But otherwise there's no online help and no documentation to consult. I saw mention of a possible web search target of Keyboard shortcuts in apps, back when someone mentioned that page was 'new' (in 2019?!) Kind of unfortunate the in-page links there don't work though... nor the HTML entities...
But wait! There's a real simple 'fix. The nearest thing you've got to a link to online help is ín the "About" popup from the window hamburger menu, which (at the bottom of the popup) has a link to here, Github. Which shows the README.md! Online!
And if only that readme (quite often used for usage information by other projects) had... keyboard shortcuts documented... wow!
I've copy-n-pasted and markdown'ed that text below:
| Press this key | To do this |
|---|---|
| Alt + 1 | Switch to Standard mode |
| Alt + 2 | Switch to Scientific mode |
| Alt + 3 | Switch to Graphing mode |
| Alt + 4 | Switch to Programmer mode |
| Alt + 5 | Switch to Date Calculation mode |
| Ctrl + M | Store in memory, in Standard mode, Scientific mode, and Programmer mode |
| Ctrl + P | Add to memory, in Standard mode, Scientific mode, and Programmer mode |
| Ctrl + Q | Subtract from memory, in Standard mode, Scientific mode, and Programmer mode |
| Ctrl + R | Recall from memory, in Standard mode, Scientific mode, and Programmer mode |
| Ctrl + L | Clear memory |
| Delete | Clear current input (select CE) |
| Esc | Fully clear input (select C) |
| Tab | Navigate to the next UI item and give it focus |
| Spacebar | Selects UI item that has focus |
| Enter | Selects = in Standard mode, Scientific mode, and Programmer mode |
| F9 | Select +/- in Standard mode, Scientific mode, and Programmer mode |
| R | Select 1/x in Standard mode and Scientific mode |
| @ | Select 2√x in Standard mode and Scientific mode |
| % | Select % in Standard mode and Programmer mode |
| Ctrl + H | When history button is visible, selects the history button in Standard mode and Scientific mode |
| Up arrow | Move up in history list, memory list, and menu items |
| Down arrow | Move down in history list, memory list, and menu items |
| Ctrl + Shift + D | Clear history |
| F3 | Select DEG in Scientific mode |
| F4 | Select RAD in Scientific mode |
| F5 | Select GRAD in Scientific mode |
| G | Select 2x in Scientific mode |
| Ctrl + G | Select 10x in Scientific mode |
| S | Select 10x in Scientific mode |
| Shift + S | Select sin-1 in Scientific mode |
| Ctrl + S | Select sinh in Scientific mode |
| Ctrl + Shift + S | Select sinh-1 in Scientific mode |
| T | Select tan in Scientific mode |
| Shift + T | Select tan-1 in Scientific mode |
| Ctrl + T | Select tanh in Scientific mode |
| Ctrl + Shift + T | Select tanh-1 in Scientific mode |
| O | Select cos in Scientific mode |
| Shift + O | Select cos-1 in Scientific mode |
| Ctrl + O | Select cosh in Scientific mode |
| Ctrl + Shift + O | Select cosh-1 in Scientific mode |
| U | Select sec in Scientific mode |
| Shift + U | Select sec-1 in Scientific mode |
| Ctrl + U | Select sech in Scientific mode |
| Ctrl + Shift + U | Select sech-1 in Scientific mode |
| I | Select csc in Scientific mode |
| Shift + I | Select csc-1 in Scientific mode |
| Ctrl + I | Select csch in Scientific mode |
| Ctrl + Shift + I | Select csch-1 in Scientific mode |
| J | Select cot in Scientific mode |
| Shift + J | Select cot-1 in Scientific mode |
| Ctrl + J | Select coth in Scientific mode |
| Ctrl + Shift + J | Select coth-1 in Scientific mode |
| Ctrl + Y | Select y√x in Scientific mode |
| Shift + \ | Select |x| in Scientific mode |
| [ | Select ⌊x⌋ in Scientific mode |
| ] | Select ⌈x⌉ in Scientific mode |
| L | Select log in Scientific mode |
| Shift + L | Select logyx in Scientific mode |
| M | Select dms in Scientific mode |
| N | Select ln in Scientific mode |
| Ctrl + N | Select ex in Scientific mode |
| P | Select Pi in Scientific mode |
| Q | Select x2 in Standard mode and Scientific mode |
| V | Toggles on/off F-E buttonin Scientific mode |
| X | Select exp in Scientific mode |
| Y, ^ | Select xy in Scientific mode |
| # | Select x3 in Scientific mode |
| ! | Select n! in Scientific mode |
| % | Select mod in Scientific mode |
| Ctrl ++ on numpad | Graph zooms in while in Graphing mode |
| Ctrl +- on numpad | Graph zooms out while in Graphing mode |
| F2 | Select DWORD in Programmer mode |
| F3 | Select WORD in Programmer mode |
| F4 | Select BYTE in Programmer mode |
| F5 | Select HEX in Programmer mode |
| F6 | Select DEC in Programmer mode |
| F7 | Select OCT in Programmer mode |
| F8 | Select BIN in Programmer mode |
| F12 | Select QWORD in Programmer mode |
| A-F | Select letters A-F in Programmer mode while HEX is selected |
| Shift + , | Select RoL in Programmer mode when Bit Shift is set to either "Circular" shift |
| Shift + . | Select RoR in Programmer mode when Bit Shift is set to either "Circular" shift |
| Shift + , | Select Lsh in Programmer mode when Bit Shift is set to "Arithmetic" or "Logical" shift |
| Shift + . | Select Rsh in Programmer mode when Bit Shift is set to "Arithmetic" or "Logical" shift |
| % | Select % in Programmer mode |
| | | Select OR in Programmer mode |
| ^ | Select XOR in Programmer mode |
| \ | Select NOR in Programmer mode |
| ~ | Select NOT in Programmer mode |
| & | Select AND in Programmer mode |
| . | Select NAND in Programmer mode |
Please consider adding this usage information to the README.md.
