Eclipse problem solved by a man named, Earl.
In response to my last blog post, "Eclipse is Blocking My Sunshine", I received the following email.
And there it is. I hit "alt+shift" and then try to type a quotation mark, and the @ symbol appears. I hit "alt+shift" again, and when I type a quotation mark this appears: Ä. One more "alt+shift" and the quotation mark key is back to normal. I obviously hit "alt+shift" by accident all the time.
THANK YOU EARL!!!
To the Eclipse developers, what were you guys thinking?
Michael, I just read your Ecplipse post and don't want to bother registering a blogger account. But I do know what may be your problem: If you have multiple languages installed in Windows, hitting alt-shift switches the language and ctrl-shift they keyboard layout. It's *really* f_______ annoying because I have Russian installed on this computer for the occasional email conversation but rarely use it. You can disable this by going through the appropriate control menus. This may be your problem: I also speak Spanish and that switches a handful of symbols from the default American english. Perhaps you have American plus UK english installed, accidentally hit alt+shift or ctrl+shift, and that toggles the change? earl
And there it is. I hit "alt+shift" and then try to type a quotation mark, and the @ symbol appears. I hit "alt+shift" again, and when I type a quotation mark this appears: Ä. One more "alt+shift" and the quotation mark key is back to normal. I obviously hit "alt+shift" by accident all the time.
THANK YOU EARL!!!
To the Eclipse developers, what were you guys thinking?
posted by Michael Sica at
8:03 PM
4 Comments:
I think it is a Windows thing, not an Eclipse thing... you actually disable it from Windows.
Congrats for getting it solved and good luck!
I checked my "Regional and Language Options", but there isn't any key sequences assigned. I think it's an Eclipse thing, but I could be wrong. I'll never be able to find it in Eclipse. The "Keys" option screen in Eclipse 3.0 is too complex for my simple mind.
Michael,
Sorry for my rambling email -- I was really tired and not writing clearly. What I had meant to say was that I only noticed I was switching languages by accident because I had Russian installed and I noticed that I was typing cyrillic all of a sudden ;) If you just have romantic languages or an American vs UK keyboard layout, all you will notice is a handful of punctuation differences.
As the previous poster said, this is a windows setting that allows you to change the input language + keyboard on a per program basis while it is running. You can disable this (under Windows XP, Luna style)
by start->settings->control panel->Date, Time, Language, and Regional Options->Regional and Language Options->Languages tab->Details button->Key Settings Button->Change Key Sequence->uncheck boxes.
It is a useful keyboard shortcut, but not something I often use -- it would be much nicer if it was a little harder to accidentally type.
earl
I saw the settings in my control panel, where you just described. But all of them have "(None)" listed as the key sequence.
Maybe Eclipse and Gaim have their own hooks into that feature that assign some kind of default key sequence.
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