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Re: adding a keyboard shortcut for double brackets

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• Subject: [mg115773] Re: adding a keyboard shortcut for double brackets
• From: Barrie Stokes <Barrie.Stokes at newcastle.edu.au>
• Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 06:31:01 -0500 (EST)

Hi Bobby

On your Windows machine, does Alt+] and then Alt+] again give the same
result as my 9 keystroke sequence "Esc [ [ Esc Esc ] ] Esc left_arrow",
i.e. the pair of characters represented at the Expression level by
\[LeftDoubleBracket] and \[RightDoubleBracket], with cursor in the
middle (achieved by my left-arrow)?

If it does, then sacre bleu! It doesn't on my PC; first thing I tried.
Otherwise, ...

I want the nice notation without 9 keystrokes each time.

Barrie

>>> On 20/01/2011 at 10:37 am, in message
<op.vpkw8y1otgfoz2 at bobbys-imac.local>,
DrMajorBob <btreat1 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> Just push the one for brackets TWICE, and voil=E1!
>
> Double brackets... without learning a new shortcut.
>
> Bobby
>
> On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 04:30:17 -0600, Barrie Stokes 
> <Barrie.Stokes at newcastle.edu.au> wrote:
>
>> Hi All
>>
>> I note in the Help page "Keyboard Shortcut Listing" that for example

>> entering Alt+] gives the pair of single brackets [] with the cursor

>> between them.
>> No such shortcut is listed for the double brackets [[ ....]]. Can
this 
>> be added to one's installation of Mathematica? I seem to be doing
"Esc [ 
>> [ Esc Esc ] ] Esc left arrow" quite a lot in a Windows 7 system.
>>
>> Barrie
>>
>>
>