I'm looking to reassign the function of my keyboard's "NumLock" key. Essentially I'd like to use the "NumLock" key to select multiple items on a spreadsheet, instead of using the "Ctrl" key to select multiple items. Anyone have a quick fix or can direct me to a third party solution?
thanks in advance,
You can use AutoHotkey to achieve this. One of the neat things about AHK is that it provides remap functionality, so your numlock key can become a second ctrl.
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I am trying to hold down the 'shift' key and press the 'down' key using the pyautogui module. But the pyautogui.keyDown() does not function with shift key.
The py.keyDown('shift') does not seem to work. Only the py.press('down') is working without holding down the shift key.
pyautogui.keyDown('shift')
pyautogui.press('down')
pyautogui.press('down')
pyautogui.keyUp('shift')
The thing i would like to do is- hold down the shift key and use the down arrow keys on the key board to move down selecting all items below with the down arrow.
#You can try this
#So, you have to make left and right shifts down at the same time to activate this feature which is wired.
pyautogui.keyDown('shiftleft')
pyautogui.keyDown('shiftright')
pyautogui.hotkey('right','right','ctrl','up')
pyautogui.keyUp('shiftleft')
pyautogui.keyUp('shiftright')
#credits:Tian Chu
#https://stackoverflow.com/users/13967128/tian-chu
Previous answer is good. I was able to successfully highlight a whole Excel column using:
pyautogui.hotkey('ctrl','shiftright','shiftleft','down')
I tried using both shiftright and shiftleft on their own and it wouldn't work unless they were both used together.
Thanks, I lost almost 1 hour to find this answer cause on the documentation this is not specified, for me worked example:
py.keyDown('shiftleft')
py.keyDown('shiftright')
py.press('down', presses=253)
py.keyUp('shiftleft')
py.keyUp('shiftright')
Again, Thanks.
I've been looking for the answer for quite some time now. This is a project I have but I can't manage to find a way to do it. The main idea would be to plug an additional keyboard on my computer that write multiple letters by hitting only one key. For example, instead of writing down a (when I hit the a key), it would write \textbf{ (for example).
I already manage to find the keyboard layout file under Linux and to switch the a and b keys, but I cannot find a way to print multiple characters.
I know it exist editors (like Texmaker or Kile) that have auto-completion, but I'm most of the time working in project in groups and therefore we use writelatex.com which does not propose auto-completion in it's free user pack ! Besides, I'm doing that for my personal interest.
Thanks a lot.
Have a look at autokey. It can assign phrases to hotkeys. It requires X11.
Another option might be to use a powerful text editor like vim or emacs which both have features like this, and then copy/paste the text into writelatex.com.
Some browsers have add-ons that allow you to edit the contents of a text field on a web page with a chosen text editor.
Edit: In Xorg you can use the X KeyBoard extension to e.g. change the meaning of individual keys. While you can configure the keyboard to generate (multibyte) unicode characters, you cannot assign arbitraty character strings to one key, to the best of my knowledge.
I am currently going through a tutorial on writing a Scheme interpreter with Haskell. I would really like to add the ability to use the arrow keys to recall previously entered lines and correct typos without deleting every preceding character.
I figure I can save previously input expressions in a list and traverse the list when the arrow keys are hit, but I am not sure how to automatically detect the key. All of my IO experience has involved the user actually pressing "Enter", so I am not sure how I would go about detecting the arrow key.
Any resources / advice would be welcome. Thanks.
Is there a hot key to toggle the search context/location in the "Find"/"Find in Files" commands (Ctr+F and Shift+Ctrl+F respectively )? I'm talking about the drop down that asks where to search for example Current Project, Current Document, Entire Solution etc.
"Find" is probably my most used feature since working with markup and CSS very often I can't just F12 to a selector definition or Shift+F12 to Find Usages, a regular text search is really the only option and I want to make this as efficient as possible.
Yes, I can tab to it but this takes 6-tabs and if I do it fast, often get the count wrong and prematurely execute bad searches; so it's not cutting it.
If there isn't a hotkey how can I set one? Ctrl + F3 would work well since F3 is "Find Next"
Thanks
I'm not sure if there is a command in Visual Studio that does what you are looking for.
If there is one, you can set the shortcut key in the Tools\Options menu (Environment\Keyboard).
In the screenshot, I'm searching for all the VS command that contain "find". Perhaps one of these is what you need.
Then move to the Press shortcut keys textbox and choose your desired key binding.
I can't use any shortcut that has meta-shift (alt and shift) in it because ubuntu will treat it as "change keyboard layout" shortcut (I map it to alt-shift since I use the same shortcut in windows) as soon as I press m-s. In windows change keyboard layout shortcut doesn't register until you release the key so any shortcut with m-s is usable in windows.
Is there any work-around without changing shortcut or meta key ? I kinda used to it.
Change the Ubuntu change-keyboard-layout shortcut, to something else.
Or use Esc as Meta
Nothing easy that I know of.
You can manually bind everything that's M-S-??? to C-M-S-??? in your .emacs or at least all of the ones that you use...
Or you can just change the short-cut... how often do you change the keyboard layout? (I use dvorak, and qwerty, but I've never needed a shortcut for it, I just use the button...)
I have tried different things, and in my opinion it is best to change the layout shortcut to something else. The power of emacs is all in its shortcuts that are available right there under your fingers. If you move the M key away and make it harder to reach, it will most surely have a negative impact on your editing speed.
Right now I'm trying to get used to switching layouts with the right Alt key. I almost never use it for anything, so missing it won't be a problem. And from my experience teaching yourself to switch layouts with another combination is a matter of several days.
P.S. Also it pays to use Caps-Lock as an additional Ctrl key, it helps tremendously!