Re: Komodo Edit/Komodo IDE extension (assigning shortcut keys to tools)
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Sep 03, 2011
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That's a limitation of many programs. I'd say a bug in Crimson actually. F10 is a standard Windows shortcut. It should not be overriden by any program.
If that is true then the other standard Windows shortcut keys should also never be used by user applications...
That short cut page is a bit misleading. Many of those shortcuts are for specific Windows programs such as Windows Explorer. F10 and Shift-F10 (as well as a few others such as Alt+Space) are responded to by the Windows Operating System itself, not the program. A program may be able to override and capture those keystrokes but they shouldn't. Other OSes have followed suit with a few standard keys as well. Overriding F10 is like overriding Alt+Tab.
On that page it lists things such as F4 - Select a different location to browse in the Windows Explorer toolbar or Shift-Delete - Delete programs/files without throwing them into the recycle bin.
Jeremy
Well, having had to work with M$'s Visual Studio 2010 product, I can say that F10 definitely does not obey the standard. (When debugging, F10 is used to Step Over a line of code when doing line by line debugging.) M$ violates its own standard here (though the F10 thing might have been a holdover from the earliest versions of Visual Studio and its predecessors, I suppose).
