Change shortcut for zoom in / out - "Num +" and mouse wheel not available on laptop

Meta Chuh

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we’ve been living with an outdated documentation for the past 5 years, and now that it is going to be set up as a new, community based one, please remember saturday night live’s “lowered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.

kofaysi

No success: I switched through three languages (English, Czech, German). zoom out [ctrl + -] and zoom off [ctrl + =] works OK, but ctrl + + does nothing. M

dinkumoil

@kofaysi

What is your keyboard loacale? Which key on a german keyboard has the same physical position like the + key on your keyboard?

kofaysi

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

dinkumoil

@kofaysi

You didn’t answer my question. Do you have a Czech keyboard? If yes, try to configure CTRL+1 as your shortcut.

kofaysi

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.

dinkumoil

@kofaysi

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.

kofaysi

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 pressed ctrl+1 on the English mapping and at the same time ctrl++ 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 pressed ctrl+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 have ctrl++ and remap the ctrl+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 and Follow topics that you reply to, I’m not notified at all. I should expect an e-mail notification, shan’t I?

kofaysi

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.

notdodgeball

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 / and Num . keys

PeterJones

@notdodgeball ,

I added your post to the Keyboard Shortcut FAQ.

notdodgeball

@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