[TW5] global keyboard shortcuts (experimental implementation)

[Knut Franke]

Hi everyone,

one thing I've really been missing in TiddlyWiki are keyboard shortcuts (currently there are just two, "ctrl+enter" for confirming and "esc" for aborting an edit operation). I've been working on implementing extended support, and would like to invite you to test and provide feedback. You can test it here:

http://nome.github.io/TiddlyPlugins/

Predefined global shortcuts:

ctrl+plus:tm-new-tiddler
ctrl+shift+F:tm-full-screen
ctrl+down:tm-navigate-next
ctrl+up:tm-navigate-prev
f2:tm-edit-tiddler

Edit $:/config/GlobalShortcuts to change these or add new ones.

Currently, the implementation is packaged as a plugin (so you can try it in your own wiki); however, to do this we have to override at least the page template, so I decided to override the <$keyboard> and <$navigator> widget implementations as well instead of adding similar widgets with new names (both are backwards-compatible, I just added some features). This means the plugin may very well break future TiddlyWiki updates. I think this functionality should get included in the core, once it's tested and stable.

One of the kinks that need to get ironed out is that these shortcuts interfere with the tiddler editor, so that defining "up"/"down" as global shortcuts (for instance) makes it impossible to properly edit tiddlers.

Some feedback regarding a sensible set of default bindings would be welcome.

Cheers,
Knut

[wimm]

Knuth,

This is a useful feature, thanks!

 

ctrl+plus:tm-new-tiddler

I understand by plus you mean the plus on the numeric keypad, because the browser zooms into the webpage with the standard ctrl+plus.

KR 

Wim

[Jon]

Hi Knut,

I think you can navigate back and forward with the browser back/forward button or the Alt and Left/Right arrows.

Have you seen http://braintest.tiddlyspot.com/#%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Fdanielo%2FkeyboardSnippets?


Regards

[Knut Franke]

On Monday, March 28, 2016 at 8:29:05 AM UTC+2, wimm wrote:

ctrl+plus:tm-new-tiddler

I understand by plus you mean the plus on the numeric keypad, because the browser zooms into the webpage with the standard ctrl+plus.

Right. I've changed the name to "kpplus" to clarify that it's the one on the numeric keypad.

On Monday, March 28, 2016 at 9:25:17 AM UTC+2, Jon wrote:

I think you can navigate back and forward with the browser back/forward button or the Alt and Left/Right arrows.

Yes (if you enable this in the TiddlyWiki config), but it's a different "dimension" of navigation than tm-navigate-prev/next. The browser navigates through history (i.e. the tiddlers you've actually visited), whereas tm-navigate-prev/next navigate through the open tiddlers (in the order in which the appear in the river). The idea is that you open a predefined list of tiddlers (as in the "default tiddlers" displayed on startup) and then navigate between them in a pre-defined order, for example for a presentation.

Have you seen http://braintest.tiddlyspot.com/#%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Fdanielo%2FkeyboardSnippets?

Thanks for the hint! This should complement nicely with the global shortcuts I've added. Although it will probably be obsoleted by the keyboard shortcuts in the new rich text editor Jeremy is working on (http://rich-text-editor.tiddlyspot.com/).


Cheers,
Knut