Disable sort by numpad shortcuts

johnbarrett
Apologies if this has been asked before, I searched and found threads relating to this feature not working, but not about disabling this feature.

Is it possible to disable the Alt+Numpad shortcuts to Sort By columns in the main Zotero item list? This shortcut conflicts with the standard Windows shortcut for entering special/accented characters (hold down Alt then enter the unicode code number for the desired character on the numpad). It is very jarring to be typing e.g. ñ and have all of the items displayed in my library jump about as the sort changes.
  • abaevbog
    Can you share more details about how/where you are typing the unicode characters, and what you are seeing? So far I cannot reproduce what you are describing.

    If I focus the search field above the item list, hold Alt, press 164 on the numpad, release Alt, then I see ñ appear in the search field without changing the sorting of the item list. Sorting will only change if I press the digits not on the numpad while holding Alt. Is this different from what you are getting?
  • johnbarrett
    Thanks for the quick response. It appears to only happen if Numlock is on, but I almost always have Numlock on, hence turning Numlock off is not an acceptable workaround. I first encountered the behaviour while adding a note to an item, but it appears to happen regardless of which component of Zotero has focus (even if it's not an element that allows text entry), provided Numlock is on.

    The below screen capture shows the behaviour. In it, I type the sequence Alt+012345 into the Series field of the most recently added item in my library. Numlock is on throughout.

    https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u1359206/cepcnykxb9k1qfez0n5j.gif

    This is happening in Zotero 7.0.24, which according to the Check for Updates is the most recent version of Zotero
  • abaevbog
    Ah, yes. Thanks for the details, I am seeing this as well. I'll see what we can do here.
  • abaevbog
    Do you mind checking to see if you still get this on Zotero Beta? I get this behavior on stable 7.0.24 but not in beta. So it may have been fixed already - the fix just hadn't made it into the stable release yet.
  • johnbarrett
    This does appear to be fixed in Zotero Beta. I can put up with this bug until the fix makes it into stable. Thanks for your prompt attention to this!
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