Issue 5 - ruby-amp - option-e conflicts with typing accented characters

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Status:	Accepted
Owner:	timcharper
Type-Defect
Priority-Medium

Reported by compay, May 13, 2008

The default shortcut for "show open windows" is option-e. This is the key sequence needed to type 
acute-accented characters in Spanish and most other western-european language (for example, é, 
á, í, ó, ú) when you have your keyboard set for American English. That means the default is an 
annoyance for many bilingual English speakers.

You might wish to consider changing this to command-option-e or something like that.

Comment 1 by tcrails1, Jun 18, 2008

I'll be the second to report this bug, just worked it out with Allan over at textmate
and having this command set to option-e was causing TM to crash whenever I wanted to
type accented characters.  The fix for me was to remove the key sequence on that
command.  As the reporter above suggested you can try moving it a different key sequence.

Comment 2 by timcharper, Sep 06, 2008

How about shift-option-e?

Comment 3 by timcharper, Sep 06, 2008

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Status: Accepted
Owner: timcharper

Comment 4 by compay, Sep 06, 2008

Shift-option-e types the accent character without the letter. Some people may need this, though probably very 
few, so I think it would be a definite improvement. However, command-option-e doesn't do anything by default, 
so I think that might be an even better candidate. Also, you can just "fat finger" option and command, so I find it 
is more comfortable for such a frequently used keyboard shortcut.