Key input not handled correctly

[sortofkinda]

Somehow sublime uses a way to read keyboard input that doesn’t really work with layers.

There have been multiple reports of the problem:

Shortcuts not working (Ctrl+U, Ctrl+/, etc.)

Hi I must say I am starting to like Sublime Text 2 as an editor, discovering more and more powerful functionality. However, I am having issues with keyboard shortcuts all the time. A lot of things seem to not work properly. The two shortcuts that are currently not working are: Ctrl+/ and Ctrl+Shift+/ to toggle comments (tried in HTML file, JS file) -> Nothing happens Ctrl+u after doing a multi-selection and wanting to go back 1 (described here: sublimetext.com/docs/2/multi ... board.html)…

Unable to set shortcut for spanish keyboard

Thanks... I have done what you suggest and here is the ouput: chr evt: (0x1c) ---> ctrl + < for ctrl + shift + < nothing is shown. With alt, etc... nothing is shown. It is quite strange. What do I have to put in my key settings? Actually all other combinations for shortcuts displays key evt in stead of chr evt. Why is it that? TA Edit: While typing other commands I have realized that SublimeText2 consideres that my keyboard is in English for shorcuts although it displays the correct cha…

Keyboard shortcuts with regional keyboard

Same problem here...lot of shortcuts does not work which makes one very unproductive. E.g. to toggle comment, shortcut is Ctrl+/. and in order to enter it on m Croatian (HR) keyboard, I've to press: `Shift+Ctrl+7' which I do as seen from the input log: key evt: shift+control+7 So, it would be very much appreciated if ST dev(s) could find a proper fix for non-En users. Any info in regard? Edit: Well, for now I just followed someone's advice and changed keybinding to Ctr…

French keyboard, ubuntu fails to handle shortuts with numbers

Hello, On ubuntu 15.04 with a french azerty keyboard, I can not use shortcuts with numbers. Logging the console shortcuts, "maj+alt+5" detects "alt+(" , and "shift+alt+5" detects "shift+alt+(" given that "(" and "5" are on the same key on french keyboard (lowercase gives a "(" and uppercase a "5" ) So it seems that it does not differentiate lower case and uppercase when pressing those keys thus breaking a lot of shortcuts, among them the panel management and the ctrl+0 shortcut to access tr…

Essentially the problem is that many regional layouts require pressing something like Shift+7 for / or similar.
Now, pressing Ctrl+Shift+7 is interpreted by sublime as:
key evt: shift+control+7

Most people seem to solve these issues by rebinding keys, which is reasonable considering that different layouts might also have different accessibility for shortcuts. Ctrl± would be the correct replacement for Ctrl+/ on QWERTZ or Ctrl+! on AZERTY. It would however be nice to have a - possibly automagically generated - baseline. As it is many very important shortcuts are unusable out-of-the-box.

I’m not sure what’s feasible here. How could this be fixed?

[kingkeith]

at the end of the following thread is a link to an article about how Atom handles keyboard layouts:

Issue: keyboard shortcuts on non-US keyboard layout

[sortofkinda]

Cool, thanks for the link!

I also liked the description of the bug that was mentioned there: https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/12951
Interesting stuff.

It looks like for them the result is a collection of educated guesses as to what the user wants.
They also seem to provide an API now so that you can add your own code to figure out what should be happening.

[mg979]

There is this plugin:

MultiBind - Simple multi-layered keybinding

It's only a prototype at the moment as I have never touched python before but will keep adding what I need. Thought I'd post it as it could still be usable in some shape or form to someone at this stage and to see if there where any feature requests and ideas. All it does is add a context barrier and a toggle command to control which barrier to disable. No setup required (except plugin install). Just start assigning keybindings to any context barrier name and assign a toggle button. Toggle:…

With some work one could adapt keyboard layouts. Or just shift to a different keyboard layout in your OS while using ST.