Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/25
Just found out about the AkelPad Editor.
It is tiny, has a lot of functionality.
Too bad that Alt+V does not go to the View menu, but is bound to a kind-of-past functionality.
Similar for other Alt+letter combinations in their keyboard shortcuts.
They should have used Ctrl+Alt+letter combinations for it.
So I continue my search for a good, tiny, syntax highlighting and multi-encoding capable NotePad alternative.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/11/30
In Excel I always got confused with named ranges, as I thought they were hard to track.
Not!
The F3 keyboard shortcut gives you a list of named ranges including name and location. Which makes it way easier to work with named ranges.
See the excellent post Show all named ranges in Excel: It even has an animated gif image that shows you F3 in action.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/19
Krishnan Sriram has a very nice list of New hotkeys for the Windows 8 Consumer Preview.
His lists starts with the shortcuts that stayed the same; these are the ones that are new:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/28
| How | Upper | Lower | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keyboard | CTRL + SHIFT + U | CTRL + U | |
| Menu | Edit -> Advanced -> Make Uppercase | Edit -> Advanced -> Make Lowercase | |
| Command | Edit.MakeUppercase | Edit.MakeLowercase | |
| Versions | 2008, 2010, 11 | ||
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/21
The Ctrl+Alt+Delete keyboard shortcut equivalent for VMware View/Workstation/Player is very easy to remember: Ctrl+Alt+Insert.
While searching for the Ctrl+Alt+Delete keyboard shortcut equivalent in Remote Desktop (which is Ctrl+Alt+End), I came accross the via List of the keyboard shortcuts that are available in Windows XP.
It includes these lists:
I was after the Ctrl+Alt+End shortcut from the list below which works in any Windows version I tested so far. But the other lists are very useful too.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/20
Scott has been posting some really good entries lately.
This is one of them: Web Sites with Embedded Command Lines: You got your Command Line in my Internet – Scott Hanselman.
Being a keyboard addict, I love that!
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/17
Learned a few Excel keyboard shortcut pairs today:
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+Spacebar | Select columns |
| Shift+Spacebar | Select rows |
| Ctrl+; | Current date |
| Ctrl+Shift+: | Current time |
| Ctrl+Shift+2 | Format current cell as default date |
| Ctrl+Shift+3 | Format current cell as default time |
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/27
Brilliant post on using the Window-key for shortcuts with Windows 8 (all Windows 7 Windows-key shortcuts work, plus many more): Windows 8 productivity: Who moved my cheese? Oh, there it is. – Scott Hanselman.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/07/23
A couple of months ago, I created a nice post listing all #WordPress Editor #keyboard #shortcuts for both Windows and Mac OS X.
As of a few days ago, WordPress.com changed their Alt-Shift shortcuts into Alt shortcuts.
For instance, Alt-Shift-d (strike through) is now Alt-d, thereby blocking the original Alt-d (which for most browsers on Windows brings you to the address bar).
They violate one of the basic GUI principles: keep existing keyboard shortcuts as they are.
On Windows based browsers that means: keep Alt and Ctrl based shortcuts. Alt-Shift, Ctrl-Shift and Ctrl-Alt-Shift shortcuts are OK.
I haven’t tested WordPress on my MacBook air yet (as I don’t think the end-users should be the WordPress.com beta testers, though they probably think the world at large is a big beta-test garden).
I have asked WordPress.com to change the shortcuts back to what they were.
–jeroen
via: #WordPress Editor #keyboard #shortcuts « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of Wiert stuff.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/07/04
![Apple ][ plus keyboard](https://i0.wp.com/farm9.staticflickr.com/8018/7460975930_9301da62e4_n.jpg "Apple ][ plus keyboard")
Some nostalgia (:
In the mid 80s, when programming in UCSD Pascal and Turbo Pascal, I learned that Pascal has (. and .) digraphs that translate into [ and ], similar to the (* and *) digraphs that translate to { and }.
In fact I thought the English word was bigraph (as bi- is a prefix for twice, just like tri- is a prefix for thirce).
The digraphs are lexical alternatives (Pascal ISO standard 7185:1990 paragraph 6.1.9 or Extended Pascal ISO standard 10260:1990 paragraph 6.1.11). There is even one more: the @ at-sign is a lexical alternative for the ^ caret.
Back then (I was in my teens, there was no internet yet and school library had nothing on programming) I thought these were because keyboards like those of the Apple ][ plus couldn’t emit [ and ], but I was wrong: it was in fact the Hollerith Card Code that could not represent these characters.
That limitation was because of the first Pascal implementation was done on a CDC 6000 series that used punched card readers/writers. You could not punch arbitrary numbers of holes on each row (lace cards lacked structural strength) limiting the character codes you can represent.
They still work in the Delphi compiler for arrays and for comments (I just learned that various Pascal implementations use different rules of mixing digraph and normal comments (some even allow nesting)).
While I taught myself C and C++ just as I taught myself Pascal, somehow I never learned that they use lexical alternatives too. It was only recently that they do, both as trigraphs and as of C99 also as digraphs and that there is even a trigraph tool as part of the C++ personality of RAD Studio 2007.
–jeroen
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