I am looking for a kind of "global hotkey" to refresh the current browsertab with STRG + F5 while I am coding
in my IDE (Aptana/Netbeans)
I ve been searching for almost 6 hours now and could not find something realy useful :/
Thank You :)
This can easily be done with Autohotkey
AutoHotkey (AHK) is a free, open-source macro-creation and automation software for Windows that allows users to automate repetitive tasks. It is driven by a scripting language that was initially aimed at providing keyboard shortcuts, otherwise known as hotkeys, that over time evolved into a full-fledged scripting language.
The code
SetTitleMatchMode, 2
$^F5::
WinActivate, Firefox
WinActivate, Chrome
send ^{F5}
return
This is a simple script which should work for the case you provided (as far as i understand it correctly).
It catches the Ctrl + F5
Activates the open browser (try both, chrome if both exist)
sends the Ctrl + F5
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I'm writing a rather complex editor with a huge number of keyboard shortcuts (or "hotkeys"), using standard Qt's way like QShortcut/QKeySequence. I have no prob with all this until the recent time.
For the QTabWidget easy tab switching i used documentation-recommended Alt- shortcuts, adding &-symbol to the tab's title text.But under Windows 7/Linux + Gnome 3 this way works well, and under Linux + KDE/Unity - it doesn't.I'm assume the problem is somethere in the X11 desktop environment shortcut handling mechanics. Maybe it handle Alt+ sequences itself and don't pass to the clients, for example.
Can i debug such situations in the clear way? Debugging the KDE code, for example, is too time-consuming :( Understand ALL Linux DEs shortcut code... the mission is completely impossible.
Or maybe i'm just using invalid way to write a really crossplatform Qt application?Or, the third option - i'm just catched a bug :)
This problem occurs due to Qt bug: https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-32908
I'm developping a web application and i intend to use mouse and some keyboard shortcuts, and if possible, use modal keys (Ctrl / Shift / Alt).
I've noticed a lot a conflicts with modern browsers/OS. Here are some examples you may know:
Ctrl+S
Ctrl+F
Shift+R : refreshes the page on firefox
Alt+left click : moves a window on linux
Ctrl+J : opens the download tab in chrome
I can't find what shortcuts (with modal keys) i can use safely in my application. Is there a list somewhere of a rule to follow?
You could have a look at this, which is a rather exhaustive list of used shortcuts.
However your question has already been asked here and here and it seems there is no such list.
Try this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_keyboard_shortcuts
My suggestion would to throw something unique in the shortcut for example:
Say you needed to bookmark something quickly, chromes is ctrl+D, instead i would do ctrl+shift+m or ctrl+alt+m
Even still you might run into duplicate shortcuts, but going with something unique will give you the best results.
Hope this helps.
I realized that I waste 10% of my time changing windows between Vim and Firefox.
Alt + Tab + F5 (and sometimes a get the wrong window).
Is there a way of making this task easier?
I thought of the following:
Embending vim to firefox (I think it is impossible).
Making a Vim shortcut which sends me to Firefox's window.
Any suggestions?
Technically, I guess this ain't proper answer, but You might benefit from these tools.
For Chrome - try LiveReload.
For Firefox - try XRefresh.
Here's a Vim shortcut to open the current file in Firefox. It should work on Ubuntu, though I'm not in front of my Linux machine to test. You can add it to your ~/.vimrc
map <Leader>p :!firefox %<CR><CR> " Preview the current html file in Firefox
If you're looking for varations on that same theme, there are quite a few similar tips on the Vim wiki. Check the duplicate links tip at the top and the "See Also" links at the bottom.
If you are on Windows, AutoHotKey is a good free option.
You could assign a key combination to activate the Firefox browser, send the F5 key to Firefox, and then return focus to Vim.
Benefits of AutoHotKey:
You could have logic that checks whether the Firefox is open, and if it is not open, open it.
You could use the AutoHotKey Window Spy tool to actually activate Firefox. Alt+Tab will fail if you've activated another window in between Vim and Firefox.
See for example:
http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/WinActivate.htm
http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/Tutorial.htm
I love VI and I'm looking for a plugin of some sort that would allow me to input text in my browser (preferably Firefox or Chrome) using VI commands. It would save me an immense amount of time and at the same time when writing long emails. Can anyone think of any plugins that would allow me to do this? I was hopeful with Vimperator (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4891) but after installing it, I realized that it didn't do the one VI think I wanted to do: create or edit a text box with VI commands. It just allowed me to do Browser commands and scrolling in VI-style.
since you have installed Vimperator , you can try this :
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editor=”YOUR-GVIM-PATH/vim72/gvim.exe
-f”
Press Ctrl + i to call gvim to deal with the text you want to edit.
I've had great luck with itsAllText firefox extension. Probably not as smooth as your dream, but it works very well in practice.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125
I've been using the Mozex extension for Firefox for years.
http://mozex.mozdev.org/
Once installed, on the "Textarea" tab, assign a hot-key and enter the command to run. For example:
gnome-terminal -e "/usr/bin/vim %t"
When the hot-key is pressed, Mozex will create a temporary file and replace the "%t" above with its name.
If there's more than one text area on a page it will allow you to pick which one you want to edit.
Mozex provides a lot more functionality than just text area editing. If you want to "view source" with Vim, you can do that too.
I've used jV for a while on firefox. It works even with newer versions that the extension doesn't officially claim to support. The dev says they are working on a chrome version.
Currently the Chrome Extensions API is fairly simple; I simply don't think that there are currently enough API hooks into the browser to be able to support something like this.
You might want to check out the confusingly-named Conkeror browser (not the same as Konqueror in Linux), which is best described as the love child of VI and Firefox. It's like VI with the Gecko rendering engine (I think).
I like putting shortcuts of the form "g - google.lnk" in my start menu so google is two keystrokes away. Win, g.
My eight or so most frequent applications go there.
I also make links to my solution files I am always opening "x - Popular Project.lnk"
Are there any better ways to automate opening frequently used applications?
AutoHotkey is a reasonably good program for implementing windows key shortcuts. You might instead define WIN + G to be "open browser to google" which gives you a better response time (don't have to wait for start menu to popup, etc)
There are macro programs that change the macros used based on the window that's in focus. I've never needed that much control, but you might want to look into that.
-Adam
Get a keyboard launcher program like Launchy
For shortcuts I use Launchy
For macros I use AutoHotKey
Others will suggest SlickRun for shortcuts also.
I use a lot the "intellisense" snippets in Visual Studio. You can include your own snippets and press double tab when they appear in the list. That's definitely a time saver.
I use QuickMacros and love it.
so much so, that I did some extensive training articles on it here.
The holy grail-
Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V
I kid, I kid! Try the veal!