Re: [pgAdmin4][Patch]: RM#1478 - Make code mirror text editor keyboard shortcuts consistent irrespective of platform type - Mailing list pgadmin-hackers

On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 5:52 PM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:

On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Surinder Kumar
<surinder.kumar@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Surinder,
>>
>> This looks very promising, but it only covers the query tool at
>> present. We need the shortcuts to apply to all codemirror instances.
>> Do the others work anyway, because we're invoking in a different way,
>> or is more work needed there?
>
> To apply the same shortcuts to other codemirror instances(e.g:
> SqlTabControl) we just need to set a parameter
> extraKeys: pgAdmin.editor_shortcut_keys for every codemirror instance.
> As of now, shortcuts are applicable to query tool & data filter.
>
> Also, we need to define pgAdmin.editor_shortcut_keys variable in server.js
> instead of sqleditor.js to work it for
> other code mirror instances.

OK, please update the patch to do that.

Can you get that to me in the next hour or so? I'd like to include it in beta 4.

​Sure.​

>> On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Surinder Kumar
>> <surinder.kumar@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > I found that Code-mirror library itself provides the List of keyboard
>> > shortcuts for Mac OSX and other platform type.
>> > We just need to pass them in extraKeys param while creating code-mirror
>> > instance.
>> >
>> > Following is the keyboard shortcuts for various operations in text
>> > editor:
>> >
>> > Copy -                            [Ctrl-C, Cmd-C]
>> > Cut -                               [Ctrl-X, Cmd-X]
>> > Select All -                      [Ctrl-A, Cmd-A]
>> > Undo -                            [Ctrl-Z, Cmd-Z]
>> > Redo -                            [Ctrl-Y, Cmd-Y]
>> > Delete Line -                  [Ctrl-D, Cmd-D]
>> > Move left/right(words) -  [Alt-Left, Alt-Right]
>> > Move start/end of line -  [Cmd-Left, Cmd-Right] // Ctrl-Left/Right are
>> > bound
>> > to System   shortcuts. so these keys cannot be used.
>> >
>> > These keyboard shortcuts are consistent in Web/Runtime applications in
>> > all
>> > platform types.
>> >
>> > Issue not fixed:
>> > keyboard shortcut for Paste text doesn't work in Mac Runtime only. It is
>> > working on Linux runtime & Windows Runtime.
>> > An issue "Key shortcuts doesn't work on Mac OS for QWebView widget" is
>> > also
>> > reported.
>> >
>> > I also found that right click paste is working in Mac Runtime which is
>> > the
>> > feature of code-mirror, So I am looking into its code to figure out and
>> > I
>> > will send a patch with fix once it gets fixed.
>> >
>> > Please find attached patch and review.
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Surinder Kumar
>> >
>> >
>> >
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