DT4: Tags Add All shortcut overrides built-in MacOS text shortcut Ctl-A

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Hi,

This one is hidden away on a panel I don’t often use, so it’s taken me some time to find it – sorry for the delay in reporting…

In the Inspectors > AI > Tags panel Add All ^A button the short cut ctl-aseems to be hardcoded, which means that it overrides the standard MacOS built in text shortcut for beginning of line (Ctl-a). This is a problem for those of us who use this shortcut all the time…

This sort of thing – accidentally overriding built in MacOS text shortcuts – happens because there are only so many shortcuts to go round and in some ways it’s understandable.

Normally I just hunt the errant shortcuts down and override them in System Settings. So, for example, I change Tools > Inspectors > Properties from Ctl-p to something else, because Ctl-p is a standard MacOS text shortcut for previous line and it really should be reserved for that purpose.

But in this case, Add All ^A seems to be hard-coded and it’s not accessible to System Settings to override.

Please could a future version either a) change the shortcut or b) make the command accessible from the standard menu system so it’s changeable in System Settings?

Many thanks!

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Thanks for the feedback! We could limit the shortcuts so that they’re only valid while one of the views or fields of the Tags inspector has the focus.

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Hi Cris – thanks for the quick response!

Many of my Keyboard Maestro shortcuts use Ctl-a and it was one of those failing which drew my attention to the clash.

So, yes, I think your proposal to limit the shortcut to relevant fields in the panel would be an elegant solution!

Thanks again,

David

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The next release will implement this.

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Excellent – thanks very much!