Customizing Mathematica shortcuts

Question

Is there a place I can view/change global shortcut options like Command + 9 (turn into Input style)?

In particular, I need a faster way of creating bulleted lists. It's the style "Item" in the Cell context menu which doesn't have its own shortcut.

Answer 1

Here is a nice article.

Also, FROM HERE (unchecked)

Question: How do I modify the front end to add new keyboard shortcuts? Answer: (mathgroup May 2005, trevor baca:)

I've been mucking around in KeyEventTranslations.tr setting up keyboard shortcuts recently and i've learned that front end tokens are pretty cool. this wolfram page gives pretty good docs.

Anyway, here are three that i had to work a little to get going (with good help from the mathgroup, as always).

• for a quit kernel keyboard shortcut, add the following to KeyEventTranslations.tr:

       Item[KeyEvent["q", Modifiers -> {Control, Option}],
               FrontEndExecute[
                       FrontEndToken[
                                SelectedNotebook[ ],
                                "EvaluatorQuit",
                                Automatic
                       ]
               ]
       ]  

• for an initialization cell toggle keyboard shortcut (repeated from previous thread), add the following to KeyEventTranslations.tr:

      Item[KeyEvent["i", Modifiers -> {Command, Control}],
               FrontEndExecute[
                       FrontEndToken[
                               SelectedNotebook[ ],
                               "InitializationCell",
                               "Toggle"
                       ]
               ]
       ]  

• for a save as package keyboard shortcut, add the following to KeyEventTranslations.tr:

       Item[KeyEvent["k", Modifiers -> {Control, Option}], 
           SaveRenameSpecial["Package"]]

Edit

I found a full list of the (undocumented) front-end tokens. Hope you'll understand that these are unsupported!

{"AllWindowsFront", "BackgroundDialog", "Balance", "BringToFront",
"CellContextDialog", "CellGroup", "CellLabelsToTags", "CellMerge",
"CellSplit", "CellTagsEditDialog", "CellTagsEmpty", "CellTagsFind",
"CellUngroup", "Clear", "ClearCellOptions", "ClearNoAutoScroll",
"Close", "CloseAll", "CloseMain", "ColorSelectorDialog",
"ColorsPanel", "CompleteSelection", "Copy", "CopyCell",
"CopySpecial", "CreateCounterBoxDialog", "CreateGridBoxDialog",
"CreateHyperlinkDialog", "CreateInlineCell", "CreateValueBoxDialog",
"Cut", "CycleNotebooksBackward", "CycleNotebooksForward",
"DebuggerAbort", "DebuggerClearAllBreakpoints", "DebuggerContinue",
"DebuggerContinueToSelection", "DebuggerFinish",
"DebuggerResetProfile", "DebuggerShowProfile", "DebuggerStep",
"DebuggerStepIn", "DebuggerStepInBody", "DebuggerStepOut",
"DebuggerToggleBreakpoint", "DebuggerToggleWatchpoint",
"DeleteGeneratedCells", "DeleteIndent", "DeleteInvisible",
"DuplicatePreviousInput", "DuplicatePreviousOutput",
"EditStyleDefinitions", "EnterSubsession", "Evaluate",
"EvaluateCells", "EvaluateInitialization", "EvaluateNextCell",
"EvaluateNotebook", "EvaluatorAbort", "EvaluatorHalt",
"EvaluatorInterrupt", "EvaluatorQuit", "EvaluatorStart",
"ExitSubsession", "ExpirationDialog", "ExplainBeepDialog",
"ExplainColoringDialog", "ExpressionLinewrap", "FileNameDialog",
"FindDialog", "FindEvaluatingCell", "FindNextMisspelling",
"FindNextWarningColor", "FinishNesting", "FixCellHeight",
"FixCellWidth", "FontColorDialog", "FontFamilyB", "FontPanel",
"FontSizeDialog", "FrontEndHide", "FrontEndQuit",
"FrontEndQuitNonInteractive", "GenerateImageCaches",
"GenerateNotebook", "GeneratePalette", "GraphicsAlign",
"GraphicsCoordinatesDialog", "GraphicsOriginalSize",
"GraphicsPlotRangeAll", "GraphicsPlotRangeAutomatic",
"GraphicsPlotRangeFixed", "GraphicsRender", "Group",
"HandleShiftReturn", "HeadersFootersDialog", "HelpDialog",
"HyperlinkGo", "HyperlinkGoBack", "HyperlinkGoForward", "Import",
"ImportPictures", "ImportStyleDefinitions", "Indent",
"InsertClipPlane", "InsertMatchingBraces", "InsertMatchingBrackets",
"InsertMatchingParentheses", "InsertNewGraphic", "InsertObject",
"InsertRawExpression", "InsertSoftReturn", "LicAuthFailureDialog",
"MacintoshOpenDeskAccessory", "MenuListBoxFormFormatTypes",
"MenuListCellEvaluators", "MenuListCellTags",
"MenuListCommonDefaultFormatTypesInput",
"MenuListCommonDefaultFormatTypesInputInline",
"MenuListCommonDefaultFormatTypesOutput",
"MenuListCommonDefaultFormatTypesOutputInline",
"MenuListCommonDefaultFormatTypesText",
"MenuListCommonDefaultFormatTypesTextInline",
"MenuListConvertFormatTypes", "MenuListDisplayAsFormatTypes",
"MenuListExportClipboardSpecial", "MenuListFonts",
"MenuListFontSubstitutions", "MenuListGlobalEvaluators",
"MenuListHelpWindows", "MenuListNotebookEvaluators",
"MenuListNotebooksMenu", "MenuListPackageWindows",
"MenuListPalettesMenu", "MenuListPaletteWindows",
"MenuListPlayerWindows", "MenuListPlugInCommands",
"MenuListPrintingStyleEnvironments", "MenuListQuitEvaluators",
"MenuListRelatedFilesMenu", "MenuListSaveClipboardSpecial",
"MenuListScreenStyleEnvironments", "MenuListStartEvaluators",
"MenuListStyleDefinitions", "MenuListStyles",
"MenuListStylesheetWindows", "MenuListTextWindows",
"MenuListWindows", "ModifyBoxFormFormatTypes",
"ModifyDefaultFontProperties", "ModifyEvaluatorNames",
"ModifyFontSubstitutions", "ModifyNotebooksMenu",
"ModifyRelatedFiles", "MoveBackward", "MoveForward", "MoveToBack",
"MoveToFront", "New", "NewPackage", "NewText",
"NextFunctionTemplate", "NotebookMail", "NotebookMailSelection",
"NotebookOneNote", "NotebookOneNoteSelection",
"NotebookStatisticsDialog", "Open", "OpenCloseGroup",
"OpenFromNotebooksMenu", "OpenFromNotebooksMenuEmpty",
"OpenFromPalettesMenu", "OpenFromRelatedFilesMenu", "OpenHelpLink",
"OpenSelection", "OpenSelectionParents", "OpenURL", "OptionsDialog",
"PasswordDialog", "Paste", "PasteApply", "PasteApplyNoAutoScroll",
"PasteDiscard", "PasteDiscardNoAutoScroll", "PasteSpecial",
"PlainFont", "PreferencesDialog", "PreviousFunctionTemplate",
"PrintDialog", "PrintOptionsDialog", "PrintSelectionDialog",
"PublishToPlayer", "RebuildHelpIndex", "RecordSoundDialog",
"RefreshDynamicObjects", "RelatedFilesMenu",
"RemoveFromEvaluationQueue", "Replace", "ReplaceAll", "ReplaceFind",
"ReplaceParent", "Revert", "RunColorDialog", "RunEdgeColorDialog",
"RunFaceColorDialog", "Save", "SaveRename", "SaveRenameSpecial",
"ScrollLineDown", "ScrollLineUp", "ScrollNotebookEnd",
"ScrollNotebookStart", "ScrollPageBottom", "ScrollPageDown",
"ScrollPageFirst", "ScrollPageLast", "ScrollPageNext",
"ScrollPagePrevious", "ScrollPageTop", "ScrollPageUp",
"SelectGeneratedCells", "SelectionAnimate", "SelectionBrace",
"SelectionBracket", "SelectionCloseAllGroups",
"SelectionCloseUnselectedCells", "SelectionConvert",
"SelectionConvertB", "SelectionDisplayAs", "SelectionDisplayAsB",
"SelectionHelpDialog", "SelectionOpenAllGroups",
"SelectionParenthesize", "SelectionSaveSpecial", "SelectionScroll",
"SelectionSetFind", "SelectionSpeak", "SelectionSpeakSummary",
"SelectionUnbracket", "SelectNotebookWindow", "SetDefaultGraphic",
"SimilarCellBelow", "SoundPlay", "SpellCheckerDialog",
"StackWindows", "Style", "StyleDefinitionsOther", "StyleOther",
"SubsessionEvaluateCells", "SystemPrintOptionsDialog",
"TemplateSelection", "TestEvaluateNotebook", "TileWindowsTall",
"TileWindowsWide", "ToggleDebugFlag", "ToggleDynamicUpdating",
"ToggleGrayBox", "ToggleOptionListElement", "ToggleShowExpression",
"ToggleTestingFlag", "TrustNotebook", "Undo", "Ungroup",
"WindowMiniaturize", "XInfoDialog", "ZoomWindow"}

Answer 2

The shortcuts for different types of cells are stored in the Stylesheet. Choose the style you want and change the MenuKeyCommand MenuCommandKey value. The dropdown options in the Option Inspector only allow you to use 1-9, but I tested it with "`" and "=" and they worked fine. Sometimes its easier to modify the Stylesheet using the Show Expression (Ctrl-Shift-E) rather than the Option Inspector.