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Keymap

Last modified: 18 June 2020

File | Settings | Keymap for Windows and Linux

MPS | Preferences | Keymap for macOS Ctrl+Alt+S the Settings/Preferences icon

Use this page to search for shortcuts and actions in the selected keymap, create, edit, and remove custom keymaps, and change shortcuts associated with actions in custom keymaps.

Note that the predefined keymaps are not editable. When you re-configure shortcut associations for the first time, MPS will automatically create a copy of the currently selected predefined keymap, which then becomes editable

Keymap Management Buttons

Item

Description

Keymaps

Select the desired keymap.

Copy

Create a child keymap on the basis of the keymap selected in the Keymaps list.

Reset

Abandon all the changes made to a custom keymap and restore the configuration of the parent keymap.

Delete

Remove the selected custom keymap from the list.

Prefer key position over key char with national layout

The option is available only when a non-English keyboard layout has been detected. If enabled, MPS interprets some keys with special characters as if you were using an English keyboard layout. For example, pressing the minus key - on a German keyboard will produce a forward slash /, so to execute Alt+/ on a German keyboard, press Alt+-.

Based on keymap

This read-only field shows the name of the parent keymap.

Keymap Toolbar

Item

Tooltip and shortcut

Description

the Expand All button

Expand All

Ctrl+NumPad Plus

Expand all nodes in the content pane of actions.

the Collapse All button

Collapse All

Ctrl+NumPad -

Collapse all nodes in the content pane of actions.

the Edit Shortcut icon

Edit Shortcut

Enter

Change shortcuts for the selected action. It is possible to remove existing shortcuts, and add new ones. Select the necessary action from the list:

Keymap menu

  • Select the Add Keyboard Shortcut option to open the Enter Keyboard Shortcut dialog, where you can specify the combination of keystrokes to be assigned to the selected action in the current keymap.

  • Select the Add Mouse Shortcut option to open the Enter Mouse Shortcut dialog, where you can specify the combination of mouse clicks and buttons to be assigned to the selected action in the current keymap.

  • Select the Remove <shortcut> option to delete the selected shortcut from the selected action.

These commands are duplicated in the context menus of the actions in the Actions content pane.

Search field

Search through the content pane of actions. As you type a search string, the actions that match the search pattern are displayed.

The previously used search patterns are stored in the search history list. To add the search string to the history list, press Enter.

Click Find to reveal the history list of the previous searches.

Click the Clear button to clear the current search pattern from the field.

the Find Action by Shortcut button

Find Action by Shortcut

Click this button to open the Find Shortcut dialog to filter out the desired actions by keystrokes.

Refer to the section Configuring keyboard shortcuts to learn how to specify keyboard shortcuts.

The actions with shortcuts that match the specified criteria are shown in the content pane of actions.

the Clear Filtering button

Clear Filtering

Click this button to restore the initial list of actions in the content pane.

Actions

Item

Description

All Actions

This content pane shows all actions currently available in MPS. The actions are grouped below nodes according to the areas of their use.

  • Note that default keymaps are not editable. As soon as you try to change a keyboard shortcut associated with an action, a copy of the corresponding keymap is automatically created.

  • If some of the actions have no mapped keyboard shortcuts, they still can be invoked by Go to Action.

Shortcuts

This read-only field shows the list of shortcuts associated with the selected action in the current keymap.

tip

The shortcuts are represented depending on the platform. However, some keys are missing on certain keyboard layouts. For example, PageUp /PageDown keys are not available on notebooks. That's why one should use Fn plus arrow keys.

Context menu of an action

Add Keyboard Shortcut

Open the Enter Keyboard Shortcut dialog, where you can specify the combination of keystrokes to be assigned to the selected action in the current keymap.

Add Mouse Shortcut

Open the Enter Mouse Shortcut dialog, where you can specify the combination of mouse clicks and buttons to be assigned to the selected action in the current keymap.

Add abbreviation

Add an abbreviation that can be used in Search Everywhere.

Remove <shortcut>/<abbreviation>

Delete the selected shortcut or abbreviation.