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JDT Editor uses "Ctrl+/" for "Toggle comment", "Ctrl+Alt+/" for "Add block comment" and "Ctrl+Alt+\" for "Remove block comment". On the french keyboard, to get a backslash, the user has to hit AltGr and to get a forward slash, Alt. Therefore, the combination of keys seems impossible on a French keyboard.
Just a typo. I meant: >JDT Editor uses "Ctrl+/" for "Toggle comment", "Ctrl+Shift+/" for "Add block comment" and "Ctrl+Shift+\" for "Remove block comment".
In order to properly fix this we need to change the exisint key sequence for Add/Remove Block Comment. Platform UI (Doug) told us not to provide additional key sequences to suppport different keyboards/locales as we did for for Ctrl+/ (we added Ctrl+7).
Note Ctrl+/ (press Ctrl+Shift+7) and Ctrl+7 should work in R3.0. See also bug 46588.
Does it mean that "Ctrl+/" will work on a French keyboard in R3.0, but "Ctrl+Shift+/" and "Ctrl+Shift+\" will not work?
Correct.
*** Bug 98590 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Is this fixed in 3.1? Any update?
Still open -> not fixed in 3.1 ;-) There are plans currently to change the key bindings that many people are used to; also, the keybindings on plain alphabetic keys are all taken, so unless there is platform-wide keybinding reassignment / management in place, there is not much chance we will do anything here.
see comment 8
*** Bug 142951 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 96076 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Any chance to fix this for 3.2? Not working on German keyboard either :( My suggestion would be to either fix or remove the wrong keyboard shortcut declarations from the menues...
>Any chance to fix this for 3.2? No. 3.2 is already in the end game phase. This bug "only" affects some keyboard layouts and can be easily worked around by assigning a different key binding. >Not working on German keyboard either :( What keyboard then?
Daniel, not sure what you mean- normal 102keys German keyboard layout everybody in Germany uses?
I misinterpreted your comment "Not working on German keyboard either" - I meant you want to express that you don't work on a German keyboard. This bug covers that as well (see bug 96076 which is marked as duplicate of this one).
WTP's source editors use the same keybindings to be consistent, so I added a dependency from our bug to this one to make sure we all stay consistent once this bug has been fixed. And according to our bug, the ctrl+shift+/ keybinding does not work on norwegian keyboards either.
Let's try again- can we address this issue for 3.3? I'd really love to Ctrl-/ (Ctrl-Shift-7 on German keyboard) in the java editor... Thanks, Andi
>I'd really love to Ctrl-/ (Ctrl-Shift-7 on German keyboard) in the java >editor... Ctrl+/ should work - at least it works for me having a Swiss German keyboard which - AFAIK - is the same regarding '/' i.e. it is Shift key + '7' key. Of course the other one to invoke "Add Block Comment" doesn't work. To be honest there's not much we (Platform Text) can do except using a different key binding sequence. However, all [F*] and also all [whatever modifier] + [a..z] are already taken which means we would have to assign a more complicated one like e.g. Esc,T and Esc,B. Which I think is not worth the effort. Reassign a command that you don't use often and learn it.
closing old resolved bug
Get rid of deprecated state.
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