Shorctcut for typing \[LeftDoubleBracket]
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- Subject: [mg75670] Shorctcut for typing \[LeftDoubleBracket]
- From: Szabolcs <szhorvat at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 05:53:44 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: University of Bergen
I hope that someone will find the following useful: Typing \[LeftDoubleBracket] as <esc>[[<esc> is very tedious, and using [[ is not very readable. Recently I found out that it is possible to customize Mathematica's keyboard shortcuts, so we can assign \[LeftDoubleBracket] to CTRL-[. WARNING: I don't know if this breaks anything. It worked for me on Windows, but if you know that it might break something, (or if you know another way of typing \[LeftDoubleBracket]), please let me know. This is what you have to do to assign \[LeftDoubleBracket] to CTRL-[ and \[RightDoubleBracket] to CTRL-] (AFAIK CTRL-[ and CTRL-] have no function in Mathematica): Find the file Mathematica\5.2\SystemFiles\FrontEnd\TextResources\KeyEventTranslations.tr and BACK IT UP. Find the line EventTranslations[{ in this file and add the following two lines right after it: Item[KeyEvent["[", Modifiers -> {Control}], FrontEndExecute[{FrontEnd`NotebookWrite[FrontEnd`SelectedNotebook[], "\[LeftDoubleBracket]", After]}]], Item[KeyEvent["]", Modifiers -> {Control}], FrontEndExecute[{FrontEnd`NotebookWrite[FrontEnd`SelectedNotebook[], "\[RightDoubleBracket]", After]}]], This solution is based on http://support.wolfram.com/mathematica/systems/unix/interface/brackets.en.html