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Re: adding a keyboard shortcut for double brackets

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg115905] Re: adding a keyboard shortcut for double brackets
• From: David Bailey <dave at removedbailey.co.uk>
• Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 04:21:38 -0500 (EST)
• References: <ihiaa7$m2j$1@smc.vnet.net>

On 23/01/2011 22:32, fizzy wrote:
> This question prompted me to look at Classrom Assistant...i'd been curious for a while what I could get from this palette...I sent a reply the other day about it but it turned out to be incomplete...
>
> actually CA has a double left/right bracket icon....under Typsetting and the very first folder you can find a double bracket button there...
>
> jerry blimbaum
>    ----- Original Message -----
>    From: Barrie Stokes
>    To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
>    Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 4:30 AM
>    Subject:  adding a keyboard shortcut for double brackets
>
>
>    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 beadded 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
>
>
An interesting alternative, is to create a new menu item, by editing 
MUNUSETUP.TR (after backing it up!). Menu items can be set up with 
nmemonic (such as the standard Alt-FO to open a file). A menu needs 
slightly more keyboard characters, but you can always find the added 
menu items by exploring the Mathematica menu. You can add your own Item 
structure, such as:

Item["&Something",FrontEndExecute[someCommand[]], MenuEvaluator->Automatic]

The someCommand can contain any Mathematica operations, such as 
NotebookWrite[InputNotebook[],"[[]]"
];SelectionMove[InputNotebook[],Before,Character,2]

David Bailey
http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk