Using the same keyboard shortcut in different areas of IDE for different actions does not work
In Debug Console there is a toolbar button "Clear All" with no keyboard shortcut by default.
I assigned "Delete" key as a keyboard shortcut for this action in Settings | Keymap in section Other | Clear All.
When assigning this shortcut I got warning saying "Already assigned to: Delete in Main menu | Edit".
After assigning this shortcut it does not work in Debug Console.
As Debug Console is read only view of text (there is no text editing possible there) I thought there would be no conflict with already existing shortcut for "Main menu | Edit".
Why doesn't this work and what's the reason to have simple edit action like deleting a letter in "Main menu | Edit" at all?
I'm using PyCharm but I'm posting this here as I guess it's a feature of IDEA platform and not specific to PyCharm.
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Request is welcome at https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues/IDEA.
I was hoping for some explanation, context, anything…
That's why I posted here first instead of submitting request.
> Why doesn't this work and what's the reason to have simple edit action like deleting a letter in "Main menu | Edit" at all
The action in Edit menu is not for deleting text in editor, it's for a 'general' delete operation which can work in many places, e.g. deleting rows/columns in a database view. What you wanted to achieve didn't work due to another 'delete' action, local to console view, not visible in keymap settings. Strictly speaking, console view is not a read-only view - to support providing input to running programs (via stdin) it allows to type text and to edit it, so it has its own 'delete' action for deleting of user-input characters. That action took precedence and didn't let 'Clear All' trigger on Delete press. Theoretically it can be changed so that it's 'muted' while there are no user-input characters, but it seems there can be a problem with it - if one tries to delete user input and presses one more Delete accidentally, it will delete all program output. I'd recommend you just assign a different shortcut to 'Clear All' action, not conflicting with text editing.
Dmitry,
Thank you very much for very detailed description of what's going on. This is exactly what I was hoping for. It's unfortunate this local 'delete' action is not visible in keymap settings.
One more thing. It looks like making Debug tool window (which I have opened in separate window) active "manually" (i.e. not from within IDE using keyboard shortcut (alt+5) but by clicking on the title bar) makes the shortcut for Clear All (probably other shortcuts as well) not working until after I click on some tab.
Can you confirm? It looks to me like a bug, is it?
Might be some focus-related issue (which I cannot reproduce myself). It's better to raise a YouTrack ticket for it with the details.
I raised https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-32975
Hmm, even Esc does not work in "windowed" Debug tool to return to editor…