Visual Studio allows us to bind multiple shortcut keys to a single action.
Here are just a few that I use quite often in my solutions:
- Alt+D,D - start debugging, Alt+D,W - start without debugging, Alt+D,A - attach to process
- Alt+A,A - add new file in a project, Alt+A,C - Add new class in a current project
- Alt+F,F - explore folder of a selected file(in Solution Explorer), folder, project or a solution
- Alt+R,R - refactor rename an item. Helps to really quickly rename variables, functions, class names, namepspaces, everything really
- Alt+R,S - change signature of a function. Helps really quickly add stuff like const to functions, parameters, and everything else without having to go in at least 2 places: header and cpp file
- Alt+E,C - Comment selected text or line, Alt+E,Alt+C - uncomment selected text or line
Now, these are just a few, there is probably around 50-100 shortcuts that I use in Visual Studio. If it wasn’t for multiple shortcuts that Visual Studio allows us, I wouldn’t be able to bind all these shortcuts comfortably to Alt+Button where buttons would be comfortably reachable without moving my left hand from default position or right hand from the mouse. The reason I’m using them is because I dont like to search through the menu like this one every time I want to do something to a variable:
https://i.imgur.com/1V9wsu4.png
As you can see here, I use 13 shortcuts from this menu alone.
It looks like UE4 doesn’t allow me to have multiple shortcut keys to access a single action. Maybe there’s some addon for UE4 that will allow me to do this kind of a thing?