feature request

Robby Stephenson robby at periapsis.org
Fri Nov 3 18:24:04 MST 2006


On Friday 03 November 2006 6:51, Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> On Friday 03 November 2006 11:43, Robby Stephenson wrote:
> > On Thursday 02 November 2006 9:16, Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> > > I've been using Tellico (1.2.4, using kde3.5.2 on a Gentoo system)
> > > for a while now and I'm very pleased with it.  I use it to keep info
> > > on my scientific literature (nearly 6000 entries and counting)  Most
> > > of these papers are pdf and so when I enter the info into tellico I
> > > do a lot of cutting and pasteing. The feature I would like to see is
> > > support for control+J (join lines).  When I cut and paste an abstract
> > > from the pdf to the entry editor each line has a return at the end of
> > > it.  Control+J would be extremely useful.  Any chance of this being
> > > added?
> >
> > Is CTRL-J a standard shortcut for that command in some other editor?
> > It's probably easy enough to add, just not very discoverable. I guess
> > this relates to the suggestion that someone else had about making the
> > paragraph editor use the Kate part, which would buy highlighting and
> > standard KDE text-editing shortcuts.
>
> Ctrl+J is a shortcut used in Kate, Kwrite, and Kile of the programs that
> I use and those three are probably all related underneath.  In nano and
> openoffice write Ctrl+J is used to justify text.
> Matt

OK. Perhaps I can add an option to use the Kate part for paragraph editing, 
for versions >= 1.3. That should enable shortcuts such as CTRL-J.

Robby



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