Standard Mac behaviour for option-arrow & cmd-arrow

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MichaelBluejay
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Standard Mac behaviour for option-arrow & cmd-arrow

Post by MichaelBluejay » Tue Jul 27, 2010 12:44 pm

Standard Mac behavior when editing text is:

Code: Select all

   Option-arrow:  next/previous word
   Command-arrow:  beginning/end of line
But in Revolution:

Code: Select all

  Option-arrow:  nothing
  Command-arrow: next/previous word/code]

I'm used to Option-Arrow to navigate by word so when I try that in Revolution and nothing happens it's kind of frustrating.  It's also frustrating to not have an easy way to go to beginning/end of lines.  (Maybe keypad keys do that, but I'm on a laptop without such keys, and anyway, even if I had those keys, I'd have to remember to do everything differently in Rev vs. all my other apps.)

Please have Revolution follow the Mac standard, or at least let the user set which behaviour they want via the application Preferences.  I'm willing to pay US$100 for this feature. :)

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Re: Standard Mac behaviour for option-arrow & cmd-arrow

Post by Mark » Tue Jul 27, 2010 7:40 pm

Hi MichaelBluejay,

I'd be happy to make a library for $100, which does what you want ;-) I bet you could do this yourself.

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Re: Standard Mac behaviour for option-arrow & cmd-arrow

Post by MichaelBluejay » Wed Jul 28, 2010 10:03 am

I bet I couldn't. I'll take you up on this. It does need to work in the Script Editor, which is primarily where I need it. I'm leaving on a trip in about 12 hours and then I won't be online for about two weeks, so unless you can get to this very soon I'm afraid it will have to wait.

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Re: Standard Mac behaviour for option-arrow & cmd-arrow

Post by Mark » Wed Jul 28, 2010 10:47 am

MichaelBluejay,

I'll wait for your e-mail :)

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Re: Standard Mac behaviour for option-arrow & cmd-arrow

Post by MichaelBluejay » Sun Aug 08, 2010 6:44 pm

I'm back. Before I commit, can I confirm that you're going to provide a script that I'll install in a shared library, and then my script editor and projects will have standard Mac behavior for option-arrow and command-arrow? If so, I'm ready to roll.

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Re: Standard Mac behaviour for option-arrow & cmd-arrow

Post by Mark » Sun Aug 08, 2010 7:00 pm

Dear Michael,

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