Bug 282019 - Way to query specific key binding
Summary: Way to query specific key binding
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 275464
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Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 3.5   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
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Assignee: Platform-UI-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2009-06-30 11:07 EDT by Christopher Barber CLA
Modified: 2009-06-30 11:19 EDT (History)
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Description Christopher Barber CLA 2009-06-30 11:07:33 EDT 
I wish there were a way to discover what a specific key sequence is bound to, like emacs "Ctrl-h k" feature. Currently, you must either just try out the sequence to see what it does, search for it in the Ctrl+Shift+L table, or bring up the key preferences and type the key names in the filter text.

I think it would be fine if this were simply a feature of the key preferences view. The Binding field in that view already allows you to enter a sequence directly, but doesn't apply it to the filter.
Comment 1 Paul Webster CLA 2009-06-30 11:19:08 EDT 
You are correct, in 3.5 you are restricted to simple text filtering.  You have to type out what the keys would look like (cumbersome) or some fragment thereof ... i.e. I would type +K to find out what CTRL+K would execute.

Bug 275464 is to support pressing the keys directly into the filter for searching.

PW


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 275464 ***