No matter what I attempt it doesn't want to work like all of the other (soon to be closed as no one can find a solution, or they don't want to share it, haha!) seamless keymappings I provided here: mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/199606/… I really don't understand why it keeps getting voted to be closed, the method is not found elsewhere, and it is not a duplicate, but I really would like

assistance with adding this(these) immensely beneficial piece(s) of functionality(ies). Maybe no one else uses the alternative letters as much, but they should ;D Can anyone provide a good answer? Pretty please with bounty on top? (If my battleship--errrr QnA survives the night, that is!)

I don't think the convenience of this method I am seeking is being properly impacted on others--I can literally hold a few keys and smash out as many \[DoubleStruck] (or similar) letters as I can! It's pretty cool to see in action--the Ctrl+' shortcut does nothing normally, neither does Ctrl+Alt+' or Ctrl+Alt+Shift+', which would be what I hope to have \[DoublePrime] output using

@CATrevillian can't you do what that answer does with:

<< CustomKeyEvents`
Scan[
 With[{ds = ToExpression["\"\\[DoubleStruck" <> ToUpperCase[#] <> "]\""]},
   AddKeyEvent[#,
    NotebookWrite[InputNotebook[], ds],
    "Modifiers" -> {"Shift", "Command"}
    ]
   ] &,
 Alphabet[]
 ]

To reset that use this:

MathLink`CallFrontEnd@ResetMenusPacket[{Automatic, Automatic}]

The big thing I should probably add to that CustomKeyEvents.wl is better introspection to make things like FrontEnd`NotebookWrite not get auto-wrapped in KernelExecute, but I don't really have the time or energy for that.

If it's useful for you feel free to take that package and fork it or download it or whatever and change it up as you will. I do not feel possessive of it (or anything in that GitHub repo) whatsoever.

Yes! Thank you for responding, my battleship may be sunk, but the fight progresses on [; ds is downstroke (of key input?) [{for reference this was way too much work for me and also way too beneficial to have it go unitilized by others}] But I think the way it utilizes mma to parse out what you then add to mma is pretty neat & evident of the power of mma--but it took too long already & I was too lazy to type it all out manually, so adding the comma at the end was not something I implemented yet--

let alone adding it automatically to the .tr file

[assidentally a word, meant to say "Is ds downstroke?"]I was additionally unaware we could just tell the "lowercase" letter-like inputs to be uppercase, I had been hoping to add a really dry/system level(is this the right word) input/implementation of the \[DoubleStruck*insertletterhere*] shortcut, as is done in our community's method of inputting the bracket shortcuts ((what do you mean by better introspection? I am happy to contribute to your package((It will help me learn what I should

already know!)) but does it require this specific syntax you mentioned above?))

Having not known about your package prior, I was decently prideful of my first child--errr functional implementation which I felt to be useful to the community as a whole. I'm confused still as to why my method of implementing Ctrl+' or Ctrl+Shift+'Has not worked ((might be related to some Tab bug or something I read about? No idea.)) I'll shuffle the code together and pop it up here before the afternoon, as it would be really useful to learn why or what is wrong, but so far this does what

it should, if I don't wrap it in the necessary Item function to implement it in the .tr file:

Item[KeyEvent["'", Modifiers -> {Control, Command}],
 FrontEndExecute[{FrontEnd`FrontEndToken[FrontEnd`InputNotebook[],
    "Superscript"],
   FrontEnd`FrontEndToken[FrontEnd`InputNotebook[], "Tab"],
   FrontEnd`NotebookWrite[FrontEnd`InputNotebook[], "\[Prime]"],
   FrontEnd`FrontEndToken[FrontEnd`InputNotebook[], "MoveNext"]}]]

If you use it adding to something(as it is in the normal use) the tab probably (definitely) isn't necessary but without it the output is prime with a superscript placeholder, which just looks goofy, perhaps you have a better method, or recommendations, @b3m2a1 :D would I need to restart (my machine?), is this perhaps what you referred to in the comment? I'm more than game to poke at your code enough to improve it (thank you!) but I should do my real work first (right? haha!) so I'll likely goof

off with it in my downtime (this time!) but I know I did not restart my machine for the other implements, just closing and reopening mma. Does your package allow one to not have to close mma, @b3m2a1 ? This would be really neat if so, and one last Q: this would add menu items (?) or ? I have not yet used your package or looked at it beyond a glance going, "woah this is fancy!" but I wonder if it might be a really long menu after you add all 52 letters (of one style), though to switch between

would be really super neat! Have a great day all :D

Just a heads-up, but there will be two more livestreams today. Stephen will be streaming at 3:00 central (reviewing entities in the Wolfram Function Repository), then we have a livecoding session at 4:00 central on Associations and Dataset.

@CATrevillian Yeah you don't need to restart anything. The menu item key bindings "just work" which is why I like them. I just add a new menu called "Key Events" that gets many key events but which you never need to open.

@b3m2a1 ooooh fancy-fancy, I'm excited to investigate this tonight! Ever had any thoughts/are you able to switch between "focused" submenus within your "Key Events" menu item method? This would allow one to switch between entire sets of key bindings, on-the-fly with a "swap focus" key binding, of course [;

@CATrevillian You could certainly do such a thing. My key-binding code is just a simplified interface for people to use. The way I really do this is reconstruct the entire MenuSetup expression and insert that into the menu with a ResetMenusPacket call.

That MenuSetup expression can easily be modified and changed up and mangled and all the rest of it as you will. And so you can add and remove whatever you want however you want and do it via a key-binding too.

It's a powerful thing to be able to mess with.

I just haven't really bothered to since I don't actually use it in practice. Someone asked "is it possible" in some question before I joined this site and I just wanted to know.

What is be of more interest to me is key bindings in a ContextMenu but I don't know if those are possible.

Vaguely wish there was a "This question should be closed as the poster has not shown minimal effort beyond asking here" as a close reason

maybe a bit mean-spirited of me but I find there are quite a lot of questions that aren't "simple mistake" but it would also be unfair to mark as "more information needed".

These days I mostly just lurk on chat instead of going to the main site

@b3m2a1 I dunno, I really enjoy helping people on the site but I feel as though those users in particular don't respect people's time

Well that's what gets you. You start out bright eyed and bushy tailed and ready to help the world.

And you end up a shriveled old fig tired of trying to help people who don't even realized how much help they really need and how much of your time it eats up.

Of course I started close to a shrivel fig than most I think...

Ha, literally nobody would describe me as bright eyed and bushy tailed IRL. I suppose that's always the way on sites like this. Only a very small percentage of users across all SEs keep answering questions for such a long time (like underdark on GIS.SE, kglr here, etc)

@VitaliyKaurov Agreed - I think the livestreams (SWs and these) are a really great thing

@VitaliyKaurov Honestly would never have gotten into the language without the SW livestreams. So valuable to see how to use the language and what your mental model should be

@b3m2a1 Also, the chat is definitely the better part of the SE ;)

@b3m2a1 1 This is awesome, very excited to poke at it later, after I am productive (does this ever happen?) 2 Cynicism makes the world a lot more fun, though ;} @CarlLange For me, it depends on who you ask, hah! Had I known about/what SO/SE was/is during my undergraduate, I shan't to think the successes I would have had(& the failures I would have not)! Yet, I am here now, succeeding and enjoying all-a-y'all :D @VitaliyKaurov is that every Tues/Thurs? Epic if so, but useful to specify this!