I'd like to see a few extra additions to the already useful set of shortcuts able to be performed when inline renaming is active (e.g. Ctrl+L for converting the selected text to lowercase). I do a lot of item creation and naming and could see the following come in handy.
Additions:
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Ctrl+Space: Convert hyphens (technically, hyphen-minuses) and underscores to spaces.
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Ctrl+-: Convert spaces to hyphen-minuses.
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E.g. "hello{space}{space}world" to "hello--world" (the forum post formatting condenses two spaces into a single). That is to say, don't trim >1 consecutive space down to a single hyphen-minus.
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I'd argue this (and the previous shortcut) shouldn't apply to hyphens which are typographical, such as the dash ‐, the hyphen ‐, or en-/em-dashes –/—, i.e. only affect the hyphen-minus character - (typically found on keyboards).
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Ctrl+Shift+-: Convert spaces to underscores.
- Currently, a bug is present as this shortcut produces
, which—when confirming the new item name—fails due to the zero-width illegal character.
- Currently, a bug is present as this shortcut produces
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Ctrl+J: Join all words, i.e. remove all spaces.
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Ctrl+R: Replace special/illegal characters in the item name with a user-defined character defined via the Preferences, say by default, a space.
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Ctrl+\: Clean the item name of special/illegal characters.
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Mostly useful for ridding of
/s, or if using the paste as-is shortcut suggestion below. -
This and the previous shortcut would make pasting in a URI or any other string that may contain characters which would either create a directory structure or perform some other special operation, not do so, but instead be stripped down to a plain and valid item name.
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Ctrl+Shift+V: Paste the string as-is, including illegal characters. Obviously, if the name was confirmed in this state, it shouldn't be allowed, but being able to paste the string as-is would give one the opportunity to convert illegal characters (using Ctrl+R above) to underscores, for example. Currently, pasting
https://example.com/?query=abc&search=1is automatically formatted ashttps/example.com/query=abc&search=1and so illegal characters have been stripped and therefore couldn't be manually replaced, e.g. to producehttps___example.com__query=abc&search=1.
Improvements:
- Ctrl+P: It could be nice if the first word after every period which is followed by a space is also capitalised, not only the very first letter of the item name. I'm guessing this shortcut was implemented because a true sentence case is unnecessarily complex to program. This faux sentence case feature could be assigned to Ctrl+S instead, but then both the P and S variant would almost be identical and I am not sure how useful they'd be as separate functions.
Nice to have, but likely not worth the effort:
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Ctrl+T: Title case: example: "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps over the Lazy Dog".
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Title case varies from standard to standard so one size wouldn't fit all, and I imagine this feature would need a few dictionaries and ways to override the default rules to get it working right in practice. Too complicated like a true sentence case.
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I think using Ctrl+W and then manually lowercasing several words likely is good enough for the time being. What could help this manual approach is if one could hold Ctrl and double-click and highlight multiple words, and then Ctrl+L the selected words at once, but I'm not sure such a thing is even possible to implement with the current fields in use (never seen this in any software).
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Thanks!
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