Change shortcut for zoom in / out - "Num +" and mouse wheel not available on laptop
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That would be GREAT to have a documentation in the new user manual being developed.
agreed, but please don’t push it too much.
we’ve been living with an outdated documentation for the past 5 years, and now that it is going to be set up as a new, community based one, please remember saturday night live’s “lowered expectations” series 😉it’s going to be very hard for all of us, including you as hopefully future contributor, to create a new manual which deals with the most relevant community topics of the past and present, but at least when it’s online we can say one or more of the following:
- cool, now i can copy paste from the manual part we wrote, instead of pasting from my personal, unsaved notepad++ tabs as before.
- damned, now we’ve written all that load of stuff, and this dude asks exactly the stuff that none of us has ever thought of.
- oh shit, i don’t even know where to begin with creating a manual, now i know why it was abandoned back in its days.
- etc. etc. etc
greetings.
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No success: I switched through three languages (English, Czech, German). zoom out [ctrl + -] and zoom off [ctrl + =] works OK, but ctrl + + does nothing. M
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What is your keyboard loacale? Which key on a german keyboard has the same physical position like the
+
key on your keyboard? -
The same as on your picture. I can write
zuiopü+
in one row.There is an exception I found: ctrl + + on the German locale keyboard switches the zoom off, if it has been zoomed out before. Other locales do nothing even in this case.
I had a chance to attach an external keyboard with a numpad and the combination of ctrl and the + symbol on the numpad worked as expected, zoom in. But using the + symbol on the same keyboard in combination with ctrl did nothing. M
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You didn’t answer my question. Do you have a Czech keyboard? If yes, try to configure
CTRL+1
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I don’t know, I never though about the nationality of my keyboard. It might be English/Czech.
Mapping ctrl+1 to zoom in works. But I’m totally confused and scared. So, the mapping ignores the actual language local layout to which I switched and used English default layout always? How come ctrl + - worked on the German and Czech layout? – the minus symbols are located at different locations than on the English.
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Some advices for the future. If you have a (computer) problem and ask for help you should follow these rules:
- Actually answer the questions you are asked for.
- Answer them as exact as possible (e.g. there is no “English/Czech” keyboard, keyboards are english or czech).
- Read the answers you got thoroughly, try to understand them and to exactly follow the requested steps. If you haven’t understood any detail ask a question about that special detail.
- Provide exact information (maybe as a step-by-step sequence) about what you did beyond that what you have been told to do.
If you would have followed only point 3., you would have solved your problem 4 days ago and I would have saved some time today which I spend to provide you further help.
Nevertheless, nice to hear that you were able to solve this issue.
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I’m sorry, but your answer and the suggested new settings opened a totally new world for me which I didn’t expect: the keymapping is bound to a hardware equipment(?) and to an absolute location of the key on the keyboard:
- setting keymapping of zoom in to
ctrl+1
(as suggested above and for all the keypressing and layouts mentioned in this post) - pressing position
1
in English mapping, when keyboard mapping is Czech (switching input method) displays:+
which is absolutely correct - pressing the same position
ctrl+1
in Czech, German and English keyboard mapping makes the window zoom in, which is confusing, because I have pressedctrl+1
on the English mapping and at the same timectrl++
on the remapped Czech keyboard. The keymapping should be of relative position too, not an absolute position. - pressing shift + position
1
in English mapping, when keyboard mapping is Czech (switching input method) displays:1
which is also absolutely correct - pressing the same position
ctrl+shift+1
in Czech, German and English keyboard mapping does not make the window zoom in, which is confusing, because I have pressedctrl+1
on the remapped Czech keyboard and that should combination should zoom in. Again, the keymapping should be of relative position to the used input method, not an absolute position.
I still do not understand, why
ctrl++
mapping did not work in any of the mentioned keyboard layouts, previously. I’d love to havectrl++
and remap thectrl+1
back to style1.I have never considered the nationality or as you name it, the keyboard locale of my keyboards, which I used. How can I find it out, please? The keyboard locale meant the current language input method I switched to (e.g. by
WIN+spacebar
).The relative mapping of the keyboard always worked and keymapping was always relative to it.Note: Although my settings at https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/ reads that I should be notified of new posts
Follow topics you create
andFollow topics that you reply to
, I’m not notified at all. I should expect an e-mail notification, shan’t I? - setting keymapping of zoom in to
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I hope the concept will be changed and keymapping will be straightforward (and keyboard mapping dependent) so, it will not need such documentation obscurity. Notepad++ does not need such public shame and blame.
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Here the table for the Brazilian Portuguese layout (ABNT2) based on dinkumoil’s work:
| | Pt/br Keyboard | | Npp shortcut mapper |---------+------------|--------------|--------------- | | | solo | with SHIFT | Virtual Key | KeyboardEvent | |---------------------+---------+------------|--------------|----------------| | ~ | ' | " | VK_OEM_3 | Backquote | | [ | ´ (DK) | ` (DK) | VK_OEM_4 | BracketLeft | | ] | [ | { | VK_OEM_6 | BracketRight | | ; | ç | Ç | VK_OEM_1 | Semicolon | | ' | ~ (DK) | ^ (DK) | VK_OEM_7 | Quote | | \ | ] | } | VK_OEM_5 | Backslash | | / | ; | : | VK_OEM_2 | Slash | | <> | \ | | | VK_OEM_102 | IntlBackslash | | Num . | Num , | DEL | VK_DELETE | NumpadDecimal | * | | Num . | | VK_ABNT_C2 | NumpadComma | | | / | ? | VK_ABNT_C1 | IntlRo | * Shortcuts using the Shift key don't work with the Numpad, are they being overridden by the driver?
As a result, by using this layout one cannot bind commands to the
/
andNum .
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I added your post to the Keyboard Shortcut FAQ.
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@PeterJones Much appreciated
A few links for better understanding or future reference in the event or of a dev wanting to take a chance.
https://w3c.github.io/uievents-code/
https://jsfiddle.net/v1gz5c5m/1/
https://github.com/Microsoft/node-native-keymap