Re: 12.10 key shortcuts

* [email protected] (Nov 09, 2012 @ 07:30+0100):
> John Harrigan <[email protected]> writes:
> > A couple of my shortcuts stopped working between 12.02 and 12.10.
> >
> > I use "- alt" to open up a panel and "= alt" to open up a new tab.  These
> > combos don't do anything any more in 12.10.  If I modify the combos to use
> > ctrl instead of alt they work as expected.  The "p alt" combo continues to
> > work (preferences).
> 
> The problem is that "- alt" means "the keypress that produces the '-'
> character, with the 'alt' modifier pressed."  It's just that once you
> press the "alt" modifier, that key no longer produces the "-" character.
> 
> It works with ctrl because we cheat.  We assume that nobody will need
> the actual character produced when holding ctrl and use the unmodified
> character instead.  But that assumption is wrong for the alt modifier.
> 
> So instead of the character you'll need to use the symbolic name for the
> key.  For "-" I think you can use "Subtract".  For "=" it depends on
> your keyboard layout.  For standard us keyboard, I think it is "Add"
> (which is rather odd.  I thought the symbolic names were based on the us
> keyboard.)

Thanks, "Subtract" and "Add" work for me.  I've gone through the rest
of my shortcuts and the only one that's not working now is "/ alt".
If you could send me the symbolic name for "/" I would appreciate it.
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