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I really dislike how so many editors bind the evaluation/compile/menu key to ctrl + space or ctrl + shift. On the default multilingual key setting on windows, i
by johnsmith32 12y ago
I really dislike how so many editors bind the evaluation/compile/menu key to ctrl + space or ctrl + shift. On the default multilingual key setting on windows, it is especially annoying when you want to run the code but instead your typing language changes to chinese
- philbarr 12y agoI think that's more the fault of windows than anything else. I mean, why do I need a shortcut key for changing language? I'm going to do that so often I need a shortcut do I? Nope. Always turned off for me.
- aninhumer 12y agoFor people in multilingual environments, that shortcut key is absolutely necessary.
- philbarr 12y agoFair enough - that never occurred to me. I assume that there are a lot of people in that situation then? For it to be on by default?
- johnsmith32 12y agoIt is a problem mainly in Asia and countries which has unique characters in their alphabet e.g. russia cyrllic, the baltic states, certain romance languages which requires a large amount of accents e.g. french
- simias 12y agoTry using an "exotic" layout for a while and you'll see how often you'll encounter applications that assume/require QWERTY.