FindCutPasteHotKeys

From Niki

I've been using NEdit for years with a SUN keyboard which has a number of high usage hot keys on the left side of the keyboard. I find myself migrating more and more to other platforms that require going through a dialog box to find a string that I have already selected. Also, hitting control keys for all the copying and pasting is a real drag.

These hot keys address this by giving me one touch Find, Cut, Paste, Undo, and Redo without removing my right hand from the mouse.

F1 - Paste

F2 - Copy

F3 - Find next occurrence of highlighted text (no dialog)

F5 - Undo

F6 - Redo

Import this macro menu definitions into NEdit.

! Load this file by starting nedit with:
!
!     nedit -import <the name of this file>
!
! Then, check that the menu definitions were loaded correctly, and choose
! Save Defaults from the Preferences menu.  The new menu definitions will
! now be incorporated into your own preferences file, so the next time you
! start NEdit, you will no longer need to use -import.
!
! These comments will not appear in your nedit.rc file
!

nedit.macroCommands: \
	HotKeys>paste:F1::: {\n\
		paste_clipboard()\n\
	}\n\
	HotKeys>copy:F2::: {\n\
		copy_clipboard()\n\
	}\n\
	HotKeys>New Find Selection:F3::: {\n\
		if ($selection_start == -1)\n\
		    find_again()\n\
		else\n\
		    find_selection()\n\
	}\n\
	HotKeys>New Find Selection (backward):Shift+F3::: {\n\
		if ($selection_start == -1)\n\
		    find_again("backward")\n\
		else\n\
		    find_selection("backward")\n\
	}\n\
	HotKeys>undo:F5::: {\n\
		undo()\n\
	}\n\
	HotKeys>redo:F6::: {\n\
		redo()\n\
	}\n

ps. See RangesetHotKeys for F7 and F8 assignments to find and search with color background. These are very useful when debugging your code and you want to see all the places a variable is being used.