Hello Herb,
The ⌥-Left and ⌥-Right shortcuts to move forwards and backwards in the Index collide with the default Mac action that moves the cursor behind or in front of a word while editing text.
I was wondering if this could be disabled when the Edit window is active. I hope this is reasonable.
Let me look into this. Thanks for reporting the issue.
Would it work to change the Index navigation shortcuts to Control Left Arrow and Control Right Arrow (instead of using the Option key)?
I think that’s a fine approach. Unless that risks interfering with someone who uses that pair to move the cursor to the beginning of a text line.
I’m not one of them and I wasn’t aware that it existed but I’m just disclosing it in case it’s something of interest to you or those who do use the shortcut.
If there’s room to propose other alternatives that don’t interfere with any default Mac shortcuts, then maybe Option + Command + Left/Right would be a solid compromise.
Overall I’m cool with whichever accommodation you think is the most appropriate.
I’ve been meaning to post this very request for the past month, and when I go to do it, its already here!
I’d be happy with shortcuts suggested by the both of you.
I would want to avoid any shortcuts using Ctrl + Option, which is used by a couple of popular windowing apps Rectangle and Magnet.
Check out the latest beta. I ended up using Control Left Bracket and Control Right Bracket. If this causes any other problems, then please let me know. (I tried Control with the arrow keys, but this didn’t seem to work for me, for some reason.)
Right on. That sounds like an intuitive combo. You are appreciated, Herb.