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

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Surinder Kumar <surinder(dot)kumar(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: pgadmin-hackers <pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [pgAdmin4][Patch]: RM#1478 - Make code mirror text editor keyboard shortcuts consistent irrespective of platform type
Date: 2016-08-08 11:13:07
Message-ID: CA+OCxoy+NzJ+LJj4hqunCXprx0XpK7xZX975QOwXj+o32XEHYA@mail.gmail.com
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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?

On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Surinder Kumar
<surinder(dot)kumar(at)enterprisedb(dot)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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