[oXygen-user] shortcuts for special characters

[George Cristian Bina]

Hi James,

I see...
I will log an enhancement request on our Jira to provide an action 
called for instance "Insert template" that will trigger the insertion of 
a template at the current position without looking for an already 
entered prefix. You should be able to set a shortcut for that and invoke 
it then type the template name to select it.
Another possibility is to have a view showing all the templates and have 
some insert actions from that view at the current caret position.

Best Regards,
George
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James Cummings wrote:
> 
> Hi George,
> 
> The only problem (as dot pointed out privately to me) with this as a 
> solution to inputting funny characters quickly, is that code templates 
> need a space in the editor before the letters you type.  So I can't type 
> 'with' and have the 'th' be part of the code template. I'd have to type 
> 'wi th' and then delete the space. Another solution would to be to write 
> a commandline java program to output the right characters and then 
> attach a menu keyboard shortcut to generate each of them, but that seems 
> a bit like overkill?
> 
> -James
> 
> George Cristian Bina wrote:
>> Hi James and Don,
>>
>> Sure you can export/import code templates. On the Options->Preferences 
>> -- Editor -- Code Templates page there are two buttons Export and 
>> Import that allow you to share the templates with other users.
>>
>> Note that oXygen has also support for project level options. This 
>> makes possible configuring a project that has some options already 
>> configured, including code templates, transformation scenarios, 
>> default schema associations, catalogs, etc. So basically you can 
>> create a project and set the options you want to be stored at project 
>> level, then you can share that project with other users that will see 
>> all the options you configured at project level when working with that 
>> project.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> George
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>> George Cristian Bina - http://aboutxml.blogspot.com/
>> <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
>> http://www.oxygenxml.com
>>
>>
>> James Cummings wrote:
>>> Dot Porter wrote:
>>>> Hello List,
>>>>
>>>> I've been using oXygen for a couple of years but mainly for text
>>>> encoding, I don't really take advantage of the more advanced
>>>> functionality. I apologize for this newbie question and I hope the
>>>> answer is simple.
>>>>
>>>> I would really like to create shortcuts for some characters from the
>>>> character map. There are three that I use often and it's a pain to
>>>> have to cut and paste or use the character map every time I want to
>>>> stick one in. I figured out how to set the menu shortcut keys and I
>>>> was able to create a shortcut to bring up the c.m. but what I really
>>>> want are shortcuts to insert the letters themselves. Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> Hi Dot,
>>>
>>> What I use is 'Code Templates'.  For example you create a template 
>>> called 'thorn' which has the content of:
>>>
>>> þ${caret}
>>>
>>> (or the unicode character reference if you want), and then start 
>>> typing th and then hit control-space.
>>>
>>> Do similar with THORN (for capital), yogh/YOGH, etc. I suppose I 
>>> could actually export these code templates and give them to you, but 
>>> it is just really as easy for you to create them yourself if think.[1]
>>>
>>> -James
>>> [1] My favourite characters, and probably some of yours, are listed 
>>> http://users.ox.ac.uk/~jamesc/characters.html
>>>
>>>
>>
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