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These days, many text editors use Ctrl+G for the "Goto Line" command (or some variant thereof). Among the ones I tried: - Atom.io - Brackets - Notepad++ - Sublime Text - The JS code editor built into Chrome Developer Tools The Orion editor should provide a Ctrl+G binding for goto line as well. It wouldn't hurt to leave Ctrl+L bound too, since Eclipse desktop users might expect it.
+1, we're trying to get folks to move off of their current env and onto Orion so matching the common binding is a great idea...we might want to look for other instances where we can do this as well. However, the set of keys available for bindings are a valuable resource so I don't think having multiple keys bound for a single action is the way to go.
OK, Ctrl+L conflicts with "Focus address bar" in some browsers anyway, so let's just remove that one.
Mark, I'm closing this as WONTFIX because it's about making Ctrl-L the binding and (if I understand your comment) we're leaving the current one... Feel free to re-open if I've misunderstood.
(In reply to Eric Moffatt from comment #3) > Mark, I'm closing this as WONTFIX because it's about making Ctrl-L the > binding and (if I understand your comment) we're leaving the current one... > > Feel free to re-open if I've misunderstood. If I'm reading this correctly, Ctrl+L should be removed and we should use Ctrl+G to avoid the browser conflict (having only one binding for Go To Line to avoid confusion). I have hit this problem before, which makes using Ctrl+L frustrating and confusing.
We should consider fixing this in 14.0
a) "Goto Line" should be Ctrl+G. b) Remove the Ctrl+L binding, because it conflicts with browser shortcut. We should just do this. All Windows browsers support Ctrl+L for "Focus and select address/location bar". (Cmd+L for Mac browsers). Keyboard users get used to being able to reorient themselves by using Ctrl+L to start at the top again. We should leave Ctrl+L unbound. In addition to the 5 editors listed in comment 0, Ctrl+G is also used in: - Komodo - Codeanywhere - VSCode - IntelliJ - UltraEdit - NetBeans It is far more common to have Ctrl+G for "Go to Line". The only browser-based editor I am aware of (other than Orion) that uses Ctrl+L for Go To Line is ACE/Cloud9 (and there's an issue requesting that they fix it). Let's switch the Orion editor's "Goto Line" to Ctrl+G.
