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Customizing Dreamweaver 521
Changing keyboard shortcuts
If the default keyboard shortcuts aren’t convenient for you, you can change or
remove existing shortcuts or add new ones. The easiest way to do this is to use the
Keyboard Shortcut Editor (see “Using the Keyboard Shortcut Editor” on page
90). However, you can also modify keyboard shortcuts directly in menus.xml if
you prefer, though it’s much easier to make mistakes entering shortcuts in
menus.xml than in the Keyboard Shortcut Editor. For information about the
syntax of the menus.xml file, see “About menus.xml tag syntax” on page 522.
To change a keyboard shortcut:
1
Quit Dreamweaver.
2
Make a backup copy of the menus.xml file.
3
Open menus.xml in a text editor such as BBEdit, HomeSite, or Wordpad.
(Don’t open it in Dreamweaver.)
4
Look at the “Keyboard Shortcut Matrix” on page 558 and find a shortcut that’s
not being used, or one that you want to reassign.
If you reassign a keyboard shortcut, cross it off on a printed copy of the matrix
for future reference.
5
If you’re reassigning a keyboard shortcut, find the menu item that the shortcut
is assigned to, and remove the
key=" shortcut "
attribute from that menu item.
6
Find the menu item to assign or reassign the keyboard shortcut to.
7
If the menu item already has a keyboard shortcut, find the
key
attribute on that
line. If it doesn’t already have a shortcut, add key="" anywhere between
attributes inside the
menuitem
tag.
8
Between the double quotation marks of the
key
attribute, enter the new
keyboard shortcut.
Use a plus (+) sign between the keys in a key combination. For more
information about modifiers, see the description of the
menuitem
tag in
“<menuitem>” on page 524.
If the keyboard shortcut is in use elsewhere and you didn’t remove the other
use of it, the shortcut will apply only to the first menu item that uses it
in menus.xml.
Note: You can use the same keyboard shortcut for a Macintosh-only menu item and for
a Windows-only menu item.
9
Write your new shortcut in the appropriate location in the Keyboard
Shortcut Matrix.