The shortcut keys used in MorphX, the Dynamics AX code editor, are
almost exactly the same as those used in Visual Studio. In fact, the
code editor basically *is* the editor from Visual Studio, with somewhat
reduced functionality, if I understand correctly.
The one thing that's always bugged me about it is
that the keystrokes for commenting and un-commenting code are different.
In VS (and various other editors), it's Ctrl-K,Ctrl-C and Ctrl-K,Ctrl-U.
For no obvious reason, MorphX uses Ctrl-E,Ctrl-C and Ctrl-E,Ctrl-U.
This isn't *too* bad, until you start getting used to it, then you
accidentally press Ctrl-E in SQL Management Studio, hence executing a
block of SQL instead of commenting it out. After doing *that* a few
times, I decided that I needed to fix MorphX.
Surprisingly,
I couldn't find any facility built into AX for changing keyboard
shortcuts. So, I turned to
AutoHotKey. It's very easy to remap a single
keystroke in AHK. For instance, I can just remap Ctrl-K to Ctrl-E with
"^k::^e". I went ahead and did that for awhile, since it didn't really
seem that there would be any harm in that. But, I wanted to figure out
how to create a more targeted replacement, so only the two specific
commands would get remapped.
The snippet below does that. And, or course, it limits the remapping to the AX code editor.
Labels: AutoHotKey, Dynamics AX