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Did you know… You can rearrange the list of external tools and create mnemonics? - #203

Continuing with the newly added notepad tool from Friday’s tip, you can use the External Tools dialog to sort your list of external tools as they will appear on the Tools menu.  To the right you’ll find the Move up and Move down. 

External Tools Notepad Top of List 

You can specify a mnemonic (also known as a keyboard accelerator) by putting an ampersand in the Title.

Notepad ampersand in title

Now under Tools menu, you can simply press ‘n’ to launch notepad.

Notepad with mnemonic

If there’s a mnemonic conflict, the focus will jump between (or among) all the commands that share that mnemonic, such that hitting enter will execute the command.  But it is ideal to have no conflicts.

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Posted: Monday, April 28, 2008 3:00 AM by saraford

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msh said:

You can assign hotkeys to external tools. The commnad seems like Tools.ExternalCommand# in customize/keyboard section. The number is, as you can guess, the order of the external tool in the external tools list. Although I have 9 external tools, I see Tools.ExternalCommand# up to 24 in keyboard command list. Does it mean, I can only assign hot keys up to 24 external tools or I can add maximum 24 external tools ?

Sorry my english not very good.

salih

# May 16, 2008 2:47 AM

xjb said:

本篇包括tip191-tip200http://www.watch-life.net/visual-studio/visual-studio-2008-tip-day-21.html#201、在v...

# January 4, 2009 7:55 PM
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