[IPython-dev] Please read: IPython Notebook UI goes modal

Aaron Meurer asmeurer at gmail.com
Sat Jan 11 16:38:39 EST 2014


Are there plans to make shortcuts customizable?

I get why you don't want Ctrl-C to mean interrupt, since that means
copy in Windows and Linux, but on OS X that shortcut should be mostly
free, and I personally would want to make it "just work".

Aaron Meurer

On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Jason Grout
<jason-sage at creativetrax.com> wrote:
> On 1/11/14, 4:30 PM, Jason Grout wrote:
>> On 1/11/14, 4:22 PM, MinRK wrote:
>>> I think the double-i makes sense for interrupt and restart.
>>
>> What about making it I I (so you have to hold down shift)?
>>
>> Having a false positive for restarting the kernel can be a huge
>> deal---you can't undo that.
>
> I would advocate for not even having a shortcut for restarting the
> kernel and rely on the menu/buttons for that.  Restarting the kernel is
> a very disruptive action, so I think it should have a fairly disruptive
> invocation procedure.
>
> You can always put a shortcut in later if people are always complaining
> that they can't restart kernels fast enough :).
>
> Jason
>
>
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