alt Hacker NewsAs a finance guy, this is a massive, massive impediment to me "maining" Linux. Without my long-ingrained Excel shortcuts I'm not getting very far. I was previously planning to investigate a couple of "containerised" ways to run 365 (the names escape me) and I may yet have to in order to be able to use the collab/live edit features of Office, but this is a big step if it does what it says on the tin. Thanks for sharing!
EDIT: On second look, it looks like this might only bring over the native/bespoke hotkeys rather than the "Alt Codes" which are the majority of (my) shortcuts? e.g. Alt + H - I - S for Insert Sheet. Will have to have a look at it properly
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This, so much this!
I have the same issue with Google Sheets. Non-experts don't understand how much of an impediment this is.
People need to watch a Shrekli video on YouTube to see how much some of us rely on the keyboard shortcuts.
You wouldn't expect a Vim user to just abandon their muscle memory and just switch to Emacs.
Was just going to say this!
The macOS version of Office has finally gotten native support for alt+shortcuts, would have been nice if LibreOffice had exploited that neglect by Microsoft :(
Speaking of shortcuts... yesterday I noticed that excel online opens in a localized version.. and with grey letters it tells what shortcut to use to jump to search bar: Alt+Ē
Meh... non-ascii chars as hotkeys maybe work in some languages, but not mine where I have to press silent letter (Apostrophe) to make e -> ē, but it doesn't work within shortcuts: ALT + (' + E)
> "Alt Codes" which are the majority of (my) shortcuts? e.g. Alt + H - I - S for Insert Sheet
Alt + H opens whatever menu H stands for, then the subsequent letters hit the appropriate menu items. The menus and their hotkeys would have to match the Office counterparts as well, and that's unlikely in normal free software clones. Not sure if it'll be that case here.
edit: After looking at what this tool does, I actually would not be surprised if you could just rewrite all the menus and their hotkeys...
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Don't mean to trivialise this problem, but, libreoffice provides full keyboard shortcut customization, which I find very easy and intuitive to work with, including, if you really wanted to, a "bring up menu then functionality from that menu" multi-key sequence shortcut as you describe here. So isn't this something that could be solved relatively easily by reassigning keyboard shortcuts once in your machine?