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default shortcut for interface interferes with international keyboard layouts
The default shortcut (ALT+o) for switching between .mli<->.ml conflicts with international language keyboard character input
In my case: Mac osx. Danish speaker, US-English keyboard. To type Danish character 'ø', the modifier key used is 'ALT' is used combined with o.
In general I believe shift and ALT modifier + characters are, on Mac at least, used used for character selection, there are other cases as well. And it likely depends on the language. (Alt+S is the german ß, The Icelandic ∂ Is ALT+D)
Only noticed this when writing a quick script for myself and writing a danish comment, containing ø. Current workaround is keep using english in comments ;)
You can override the shortcut by going to
Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts and searching for ocaml. You will be able to see all of the keyboard shortcuts from the extension and change them as you wish.
Thats what I did. No problem there. The default shortcut can be accidently triggered. And it creates an empty interface file, saved to disk here, which can break compulation without you really understanding why.
Alright, we could probably add a key to prevent interference with macOS shortcuts.
Would Ctrl+Alt+O or Cmd+Alt+O work fine on macOS?
saved to disk here
That shouldn't happen. It should open an unsaved file with an automatically generated interface and let you save if you want.
Maybe you have some sort of non-standard auto-saving? I can't reproduce it with any of the VSCode auto-save settings.
It seems like using alt+<key> keybindings is a bad idea because it keeps
clashing. But at the same time, I wonder whether providing keybindings is a
good idea at all since it will keep clashing.
I think we should document well how to add keybindings in vscode and remove default bindings completely.
On Thu, 11 Nov 2021 at 21:13, Max Lantas @.***> wrote:
Alright, we could probably add a key to prevent interference with macOS shortcuts.
Would Ctrl+ALT+O or Cmd+ALT+O work fine on macOS?
saved to disk here
That shouldn't happen. It should open an unsaved file with an automatically generated interface and let you save if you want.
Maybe you have some sort of non-standard auto-saving? I can't reproduce it with any of the VSCode auto-save settings.
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