| msg28423 - (view) |
Author: NothingCanFulfill (ncf) |
Date: 2006-05-04 20:48 |
| On Windows, pressing Shift+Backspace while in an editor window will act just like a regular Backspace will, however under Linux (Gentoo 2006.0 and Slackware-current), instead of deleting the caracter before the cursor, it inserts "^B". Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think it'd be too hard to fix this little annoyance. (I would do it myself, but I'm not at all familiar with IDLE's source layout) |
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| msg28424 - (view) |
Author: Neal Norwitz (nnorwitz) *  |
Date: 2006-05-05 07:03 |
| Logged In: YES user_id=33168 Right now there aren't a lot of IDLE developers. It would be great if you could work on a patch. |
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| msg28425 - (view) |
Author: Kurt B. Kaiser (kbk) * |
Date: 2006-07-23 05:07 |
| Logged In: YES user_id=149084 Can't fix in IDLE by binding Shift-Key-BackSpace. Using Python interpreter: >>> import Tkinter >>> root = Tkinter.Tk() >>> text = Tkinter.Text() >>> text.pack() and try typing some char followed by backspace and shift-backspace. In Tcl shift-backspace works correctly. Not an IDLE issue, appparently a Tkinter issue. |
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| msg67672 - (view) |
Author: Guilherme Polo (gpolo) * |
Date: 2008-06-03 19:19 |
| I've tested this on Linux and on Tk 8.4 I got "\b", and the same happened with Tkinter. On Linux, again, with Tk 8.5 I got a rectangle char (something invalid), and this repeated at Tkinter. This is not a Tkinter issue. |
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| msg73186 - (view) |
Author: Guilherme Polo (gpolo) * |
Date: 2008-09-13 13:53 |
| I've just found some discussion about the problem here: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/577df9cfa39e6688/49484ac512f13693?lnk=gst&q=shift+backspace#49484ac512f13693 Hope this is enough to close this issue, as it is not a tkinter neither idle issue. |
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| msg78864 - (view) |
Author: Guilherme Polo (gpolo) * |
Date: 2009-01-02 19:51 |
| I'm closing this as won't fix but let me tell what you can do to solve the problem yourself (this may be added somewhere else then, like in the tkinter wiki). First, check the keysym you get when pressing Shift-BackSpace: import Tkinter def show_key(event): print event.keysym, event.keycode, hex(event.keysym_num) root = Tkinter.Tk() root.bind("", show_key) root.mainloop() While running this I pressed Shift-BackSpace, this is what I got: Shift_L 50 0xffe1 Terminate_Server 22 0xfed5 You can clearly see that Shift-BackSpace is assigned to something else here, Terminate_Server. You can confirm this by doing: $ xmodmap -pk | grep 0xfed5 22 0xff08 (BackSpace) 0xfed5 (Terminate_Server) 0xff08 (BackSpace) 0xfed5 (Terminate_Server) 0xff08 (BackSpace) 0xfed5 (Terminate_Server) The second field in this output indicates that when I press the key 22 (BackSpace) while holding shift, a Terminate_Server is sent. For more information about xmodmap you should consult its documentation. Then, to fix the initial problem you can do the following: $ xmodmap -e "keycode 22 = BackSpace" But then it may happen that you can no longer issue a Ctrl-Alt-BackSpace to finalize your X (till you end this session and start another, since nothing was permanently saved here). To solve this issue I suggest checking conflicts between xkb and xmodmap. |
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| msg78869 - (view) |
Author: Guilherme Polo (gpolo) * |
Date: 2009-01-02 20:23 |
| Just for future reference it is now on http://tkinter.unpy.net/wiki/Linux_Shift-Backspace |
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