Editor should provide option to reformat source

[mbaas2]

As ODE did with Edit > Reformat.

[ngn]

There's Preferences>Shortcuts>RD which you can map to a key combination of your choice but it uses RIDE's own formatting - not 100% compatible with the interpreter's.
See also #68

[mbaas2]

Ok. But, to be honest, it is not really userfriendly (IMHO) to "hide" such functionality in a shortcuts-table somewhere. Can't we have a proper menu which would expose these functions (and possibly even indicate the key-combination that had been assigned to it?)

[ngn]

You can add
Format =RD
somewhere in Preferences>Menu and restart RIDE.
I have no comment on whether that should be the default.

[geoffstreeter]

RD from the keyboard does not work. I should not need to mess with preferences for it to do so.

[jayfoad]

RIDE should probably copy the ODE's default key binding for RD, which is numeric-keypad-/. Currently RIDE's keyboard shortcut system does not distinguish numeric-keypad-/ from normal /, so it would need a bit of work.

[geoffstreeter]

RIDE should at least honour the users keyboard so that RD (UF819) works. How the unicode UF819 is generated is not the point - if that code reaches RIDE it should honour it as if RD was requested. Similarly, for any other codes on that page that are relevant.

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On Thursday, 2 March 2017 04:48:48 GMT jayfoad wrote: RIDE should probably copy the ODE's default key binding for RD, which is numeric-keypad-/. Currently RIDE's keyboard shortcut system does not distinguish numeric-keypad-/ from normal /, so it would need a bit of work.

[jayfoad]

RIDE should at least honour the users keyboard so that RD (UF819) works

No, as a design decision RIDE does not respond to these Dyalog private-use-area command codes.

[geoffstreeter]

I have no recollection of being involved in such a decision. I would have strongly objected. It makes the Linux keyboard inappropriate with RIDE which seems like a backward step.

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On Thursday, 2 March 2017 07:22:01 GMT jayfoad wrote: > RIDE should at least honour the users keyboard so that RD (UF819) works No, as a design decision RIDE does not respond to these Dyalog private-use-area command codes.

[e9gille]

I have just looked into this and found that the module we use (CodeMirror) is natively not distinguishing between numpad keys and their equivalents.

I've found a way top extend it to do exactly that and set the default shortcut to match the ODE (NumpadDivide). Together with 0eda47c this should now work as requested.

[ngn]

@geoffstreeter @jayfoad
CodeMirror has two ways to define a mapping: as a combination of keys or as a character.
https://codemirror.net/doc/manual.html#keymaps
Prefs>Shortcuts maps keys.
Separately from that, RIDE maps Dyalog's private-range Unicode chars:

ride/src/km.js

Line 353 in 167f1aa

// 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F

(If you adopt a policy of not supporting the private range, I think that code should be removed.)
However, due to a bug in Chromium, some special key combinations don't produce characters - Chromium hijacks them before xkb has a chance to process them, and they never reach CodeMirror/RIDE. See https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=485528#c14

[jayfoad]

Separately from that, RIDE maps Dyalog's private-range Unicode chars:

ride/src/km.js

Line 353 in 167f1aa

// 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F

Thanks @ngn. I didn't know about that.