decidedlyodd

Over the years, I’ve seen some weird bugs in products I’ve worked on and products I’ve used. However, I’ve been experiencing one in Dreamweaver over the past two days which has to take the cake (at least for now). When I press Shift-I (for example when I want to type the word ‘Igloo’) into the code editor, the paste operation is performed.

Now, this is quite annoying although oddly I can work around it by turning on caps lock to create the upper case I. It all started when I began experimenting with ways to get Emacs editing keys (in general or even just a few basic ones like Ctrl-A/Ctrl-E) working. You see, on OS X all the Emacs keyboarding I learned back in college and grad school tend to work in text boxes. To go to the beginning of the line you type Ctrl-A or for the end of the line Ctrl-E. In Windows, you hit the home or end key respectively. The annoying thing is that Dreamweaver uses Windows-style shortcuts only, which is inconsistent compared to other apps on the system. Anyhow, it turned out that you can’t set Ctrl-based shortcut keys in Dreamweaver, which means there’s no easy way to do what I want. In the end, I didn’t change one keyboard shortcut, especially anything having to do with paste. That didn’t stop this problem from appearing out of nowhere though.

For now, I seem to have found a solution. There are different sets of shortcuts you can choose from in the keyboard shortcuts dialog. To create your own custom setting, you have to duplicate an existing set then modify the duplicate. If I just create an unmodified duplicate, the problem seems to go away. Weird.