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Re: VS2008: Problem with restoring keybindings

Hello,

In my configuration restoring the keybindings does not work.

No matter whether I press "Restore" in the keyboard manager or disable
ViEmu the original VS's keybindings are lost.

The configuration is:
  ViEmu 2.2.8
  Visual Studio 2008 Standard, SP 1, German, Keyboard layout: Visual C++ 6
  Windows XP

The keyboard manager shows the following information:
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Saved keybindings are:

File.Print=Global::Strg+P
Edit.Redo=Global::Strg+Y||Global::Umschalt+Alt+Rücktaste||Global::Strg+Umschalt+Z
Edit.Find=Global::Strg+F
File.NewFile=Global::Strg+N
File.OpenFile=Global::Strg+O
Edit.MakeLowercase=Text-Editor::Strg+U
Edit.CharTranspose=Text-Editor::Strg+T
Edit.SelectCurrentWord=Text-Editor::Strg+W
Edit.ViewWhiteSpace=Text-Editor::Strg+R, Strg+W||Global::Strg+Umschalt+8
Edit.ToggleWordWrap=Text-Editor::Strg+E, Strg+W
Edit.IncrementalSearch=Text-Editor::Strg+I
Refactor.Rename=Global::Strg+R, Strg+R
Refactor.ExtractMethod=Global::Strg+R, Strg+M

No clashing keybindings

Scanned keys:
RFBDUWTQEYOINP]

yes: Restore/remove saved keybindings when disabling/enabling ViEmu
yes: Scan for clashing keybindgs on startup
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But the following works:
Imagine I want to enable the <ctrl-V> of Vim (blockwise selection) and
the <ctrl-F> of Visual Studio (Find). Then I have to do:

- Set the scanning keys in ViEmu's keyboard manager:
  RBDUWTQEYOINP]V    (F removed and V added compared to the default)

- Reload VS's original keybindings via Extras->Options->Environment-Keyboard...
  and enter ViEmu's keyboard manager. Then the manager shows the
  correct clashing keybindings.
 
- After pressing "Save and remove" and returning to the code view
   <ctrl-F> and <ctrl-V> work as expected.


But after this neither pressing "Restore" in ViEmu's keyboard manager
nor disabling ViEmu brings back the original VS keybindings.

Any idea what is going wrong here?

Greetings
  LoveVim

2 Reply by Jon_Symnum

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Re: VS2008: Problem with restoring keybindings

LoveVim,

(It's a weird nickname to respond to).

Restore is used to re-assign the keybindings on the left-hand-side list. This same restoring is done temporarily when ViEmu is disabled (Ctrl-Shift-Alt-V), and they are re-removed after enabling ViEmu again (same keypress). Can you check whether all keybindings are fixed when you use Ctrl-Shift-Alt-V?

I'm suspecting that it may be related to using the German-localized version of Visual Studio. I don't have access to it, and there are a couple differences (the "Strg" prefix instead of "Ctrl", and the scope "Text-Editor", which in the US version is "Text Editor" (duh)). Maybe something is not accounted for. Let me know whether Ctrl-Shift-Alt-V restoring/removing works, and after that, I think we can try to work out what the reason is (the keybindings API that ViEmu uses is also available to VS macros).

Regards,

  -- Jon

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Re: VS2008: Problem with restoring keybindings

Hi Jon,

Thank you again for the response.

Well, if I disable ViEmu using Ctrl-Shift-Alt-V none of the saved keybindings are restored.
E.g., if ViEmu is disabled ctrl-n should open a dialog to create a new file. But nothing happens
if I press ctrl-n.

Options->Environment->Keyboard shows that the command "Datei.NeueDatei" (German for
File.NewFile) is not bound to any key.
Same holds true for ctrl-o (open file), ctrl-p (print) - I have not tested the other clashes yet...

After enabling ViEmu via Ctrl-Shift-Alt-V the keybindings work as expected for vim.


Greetings
  LoveVim

Last edited by LoveVim (2009-06-27 23:31:22)

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Re: VS2008: Problem with restoring keybindings

LoveVim,

Can you go to the macros IDE and try whether the following code works to set Ctrl-F as the binding to Edit|Copy?

    Sub test1()
        DTE.Commands.Item("Edit.Copy").Bindings = "Global::Ctrl+F"
    End Sub

You need to use Tools|Macros IDE, paste the code above in a module (I could only make it work in the Utilities module under Samples, don't know why), and press F5 to run it.

PS: Use the German name of the command, ViEmu uses the local name when setting keybindings.

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Re: VS2008: Problem with restoring keybindings

Hello Jon,

I have added this to Samples->Utilities below Public Module Utilities:

 
Sub test1()
        DTE.Commands.Item("Bearbeiten.Kopieren").Bindings = "Global::Ctrl+F"
End Sub

After running this macro Ctrl+f has been assigned to Edit.Copy.
Extras->Options->Environment->Keyboard   Edit.Copy shows Ctrl-F as key binding.

When pressing ctrl-f the selected text is copied into clipboard.

The key scan code is:
RBDUWTQEYONP]V,  I have removed F and added V.

Greetings
Christian

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Re: VS2008: Problem with restoring keybindings

Jon,

Jon wrote:

I have been trying (for a few hours now!) to devise a test, using just the macros IDE, to see why keybinding setting doesn't work in the German version of VS. I'm stumbling into a block because even MSDN examples don't work. Can I say, again, how much I hate VS's VB-based programmability environment, and the clunkiness of their object model?

I feel with you.  Don't waste too much time to fix this. I can live with this bug.

LoveVim

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Re: VS2008: Problem with restoring keybindings

Thanks LoveVim. I'm sorry the system does not work fine with the German localized version of VS. I will revisit this issue once the new input-handling system is in place, as more than one thing could be different.

Regards,

  -- Jon