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  • From: Gianluca Gorni <gianluca.gorni at uniud.it>
  • Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:50:50 -0400 (EDT)

On 11/ott/2010, at 11.28, Peter Breitfeld wrote:

> "Nasser M. Abbasi" wrote:
> 
>> Mathematica Experts;
>> 
>> What is the ESC key stroke combination to enter the "Matching double 
>> brackets" into my notebook?
>> 
>> I can't find the ESC sequence for this. Are these documented somewhere?
>> 
>> I remember that before when one moved the mouse over one of those 
>> things, then the ESC sequence would show up at he bottom of the palette.
>> 
>> (Just noticed that some do show the ESC sequence in the ballon help that 
>> comes up when the mouse is over them, but some do not. The ballon help 
>> only shows the name,  but not the ESC sequence as well. Strange).
>> 
>> thanks
>> --Nasser
> 
> 
> The escape sequences are esc[[esc  and esc]]esc. But you I prefer to
> add a keystroke for that. I use "Ctrl <" to produce the opening and
> closing double bracket and to position the cursor between the brackets.
> 
> To do that, open the Mathematica file KeyEventTranslations.tr in an
> editor and add this code:
> 
>  Item[KeyEvent["<",Modifiers->{Control}],
>      FrontEndExecute[{FrontEnd`NotebookWrite[FrontEnd`SelectedNotebook[],
>        "\[LeftDoubleBracket]\[RightDoubleBracket]",After],
>              FrontEndToken["MovePrevious"]}]]
> 
> WARNING: Be careful when changing this file. Make a copy of it before
> altering. If you made an error (e.g. missing a comma) Mathematica will
> not start.              
> 
> 
> // Peter
> -- 
> _________________________________________________________________
> Peter Breitfeld, Bad Saulgau, Germany -- http://www.pBreitfeld.de

I tried to adapt your KeyEvent to get "matching double quotes"
on my Macintosh system:

Item[KeyEvent["\"",Modifiers->{Command,Shift}],
     FrontEndExecute[{FrontEnd`NotebookWrite[FrontEnd`SelectedNotebook[],
       "\"\"",After],
             FrontEndToken["MovePrevious"]}]]

but it does not seem to work. What am I doing wrong?

Gianluca


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