Hello, Inserting a character easier than opening the Character Map dialog and finding the character for each insertion was requested before on this list: http://www.oxygenxml.com/pipermail/oxygen-user/2007-May/001125.html A solution is a custom code template which inserts the character at cursor position. Defining a custom code template is very easy but in the current version of oXygen a shortcut cannot be assigned to a code template. We have this issue logged on our JIRA. I defined a code template with the content ó${caret} and I used it to insert the ó character in an XML file. The caret was positioned after the inserted character. Please specify the type of editor associated with your code template and the platform and the version of Java virtual machine used to run oXygen. The JVM version is displayed in Help -> About -> System properties -> java.vm.version. Regards, Sorin Jeff Sese wrote:

Hi,

Is it possible to assign shortcut keys for custom code template? Or is it possible to assign shortcut keys for commonly used unicode characters?

It nice that oxygen has the character map dialog so that insertion of unicode characters can be easy, but it would really be nice if I can assign shortcut keys to commonly type/inserted unicode characters. I workaround that I did was assign code templates for these characters but the feedback that I got from other possible user of the editor is that it would be better if shortcut keys can be assigned.

Also, when I assigned a code template like this: "ó${caret}", when I execute it using the ctrl+space the caret position moves back to the start of the character, I was assuming that it would be at the end of the character. Is this a bug?

Thanks, Jeff