shortcut key for '@' tagging

[Anthony Sepulveda]

Hello,

 

In Accordance for Windows, what would be the keyboard shortcut for the '@' sign when I want to type a tagged search directly from the command line? No shortcut key was indicated beside the menu item, and when I type in a Greek or Hebrew tagged search, the keyboard layout changes, and so I can't type in '@' the way I'm used to.

 

Thanks,

--anthony

[Joel Brown]

Anthony, I believe the @ sign is just shift-2. Does this not work for you?

[Helen Brown]

Unless you are using a different keyboard.

[Anthony Sepulveda]

I'm using a European keyboard layout (Spanish-International). With this keyboard layout, the '@' is typed as Alt-Gr+2: after a few more tests, now I see that Accordance doesn't recognize key combinations with the Alt-Gr key. Would this be easy to implement for the next release?

[Ken Simpson]

You can always put in the @ symbol using the menus, but that's not quite what you're asking.

 

(Interestingly Apple tried to autocorrect menus to emus there. Maybe we could train some emus to do it!)

[Joe Weaks]

there's also Alt 64

if I recall

[Anthony Sepulveda]

Hi Joe,

This also made me recall that these alt-number combinations only work with the numeric keypad, and not with the numbers below the function keys. Yep, I guess it's back to Alt-64 for now, instead of the quicker key combination with Shift-2 or AltGr-2. (but hey, if you can implement support for non-US keyboard layouts, that would be great)

Thanks a lot.

Hi Ken,

Yes, I was thinking of a faster way to type in the tagged searches, without having to move the mouse and clicking menus.

Thanks!

Edited May 16, 2014 by antxon

[Abram K-J]

antxon, in the meantime would an app like TextExpander work for you, where you could assign a not-so-regularly-used key to be a shortcut to @? For example, if you use @ a lot, but not \, you could assign the latter to call up the former, as long as Text Expander is open. What I don't know is whether/how TextExpander works with various keyboards.

[Anthony Sepulveda]

Hi Abraham,

 

Thanks for the tip; I'll check it out and see if it's worth it.

 

Cheers,

--anthony

[Abram K-J]

Sure--you can download a free trial and see what you think.

[Joe Weaks]

I thought TextExpander was just on the Mac (and iOS). I don't use it. You may have to find an equivalent.

 

Axton, you should not be satisfied with the lame solution of having to use an Alt combo for such a standard function in Accordance. Until OakTree has a better solution, what I would do would be look into one of those registry hacks that allows you to change the key bindings. You'd have to search for solutions.

[Abram K-J]

Ah, right--good point, Joe. I missed that. There are similar programs for Windows that look like they do the same thing, but I haven't used any.