Most of the items that appear in the main menu can have a new shortcut assigned. You can change the already assigned shortcuts and add new shortcuts by putting a shortcut definition file in your OmegaT preferences folder (accessible by → menu).
The shortcut definition file must be named
MainMenuShortcuts.properties and must contain at most
one shortcut definition per line. Empty lines are accepted and comment
lines should start with "//". Anything after the "//" will be
ignored.
Once the MainMenuShortcuts.properties file is
modified, OmegaT must be relaunched to take the
new shortcuts into account.
The shortcut definition syntax is the following: <menu item
code>=<shortcut>, where
<menu item
code>
is a code taken from the tables below and
<shortcut>
is a combination of pressed keys
specified by the user
[2]
.
<shortcut> must be of the following form: 0 or more
<modifier> followed by 0 or 1
<event> followed by 1 <key>,
where:
For example, in the default OmegaT shortcuts [5] , one can find:
projectOpenMenuItem=ctrl O
editCreateGlossaryEntryMenuItem=ctrl shift G
The first is the shortcut for , the second for .
If you want to use
Shift
+
Ctrl
+
O
to open a project, modify your
MainMenuShortcuts.properties as follows:
projectOpenMenuItem=shift ctrl O.
If you are on a Mac and you want to add a
Shift
+
Command
+
S
shortcut to → , add the following line to your
MainMenuShortcuts.properties:
toolsShowStatisticsStandardMenuItem=shift meta
S
Save then the file and relaunch OmegaT. Your new shortcuts should now appear next to the menu items you have modified. If they do not conflict with system shortcuts, they should be available from within OmegaT.
| Menu Item | Default shortcut | Menu Item Code |
|---|---|---|
| New | Ctrl+Shift+N | projectNewMenuItem |
| Download Team Project | projectTeamNewMenuItem | |
| Open | Ctrl+O | projectOpenMenuItem |
| Open Recent Project | projectOpenRecentMenuItem | |
| Copy Files to Source Folder... | projectImportMenuItem | |
| Download MediaWiki Page... | projectWikiImportMenuItem | |
| Reload | F5 | projectReloadMenuItem |
| Close | Ctrl+Shift+W | projectCloseMenuItem |
| Save | Ctrl+S | projectSaveMenuItem |
| Create Translated Documents | Ctrl+D | projectCompileMenuItem |
| Create Current Translated Documents | Ctrl+Shift+D | projectSingleCompileMenuItem |
| Properties... | Ctrl+E | projectEditMenuItem |
| Project Files... | Ctrl+L | viewFileListMenuItem |
| Access Project Contents/Root | projectAccessRootMenuItem | |
| Access Project Contents/Dictionaries | projectAccessDictionaryMenuItem | |
| Access Project Contents/Glossaries | projectAccessGlossaryMenuItem | |
| Access Project Contents/Source Files | projectAccessSourceMenuItem | |
| Access Project Contents/Target Files | projectAccessTargetMenuItem | |
| Access Project Contents/Current Source Document | projectAccessCurrentSourceDocumentMenuItem | |
| Access Project Contents/Current Target Document | projectAccessCurrentTargetDocumentMenuItem | |
| Access Project Contents/Writeable Glossary | projectAccessWriteableGlossaryMenuItem | |
| Restart | projectRestartMenuItem | |
| Quit | Ctrl+Q | projectExitMenuItem |
| Menu Item | Default shortcut | Menu Item Code |
|---|---|---|
| Undo Last Action | Ctrl+Z | editUndoMenuItem |
| Redo Last Action | Ctrl+Y | editRedoMenuItem |
| Replace With Match or Selection | Ctrl+R | editOverwriteTranslationMenuItem |
| Insert Match or Selection | Ctrl+I | editInsertTranslationMenuItem |
| Replace with Machine Translation | Ctrl+M | editOverwriteMachineTranslationMenuItem |
| Replace With Source | Ctrl+Shift+R | editOverwriteSourceMenuItem |
| Insert Source | Ctrl+Shift+I | editInsertSourceMenuItem |
| Insert Missing Source Tags | Ctrl+Shift+T | editTagPainterMenuItem |
| Insert Next Missing Tag | Ctrl+T | editTagNextMissedMenuItem |
| Export Selection | Ctrl+Shift+C | editExportSelectionMenuItem |
| Create Glossary Entry | Ctrl+Shift+G | editCreateGlossaryEntryMenuItem |
| Search Project... | Ctrl+F | editFindInProjectMenuItem |
| Ctrl+Shift+F | findInProjectReuseLastWindow | |
| Search and Replace... | Ctrl+K | editReplaceInProjectMenuItem |
| Switch Case To/Lower Case | lowerCaseMenuItem | |
| Switch Case To/Upper Case | upperCaseMenuItem | |
| Switch Case To/Title Case | titleCaseMenuItem | |
| Switch Case To/Sentence Case | sentenceCaseMenuItem | |
| Switch Case To/Cycle | Shift+F3 | cycleSwitchCaseMenuItem |
| Select Previous Match | Ctrl+↑ | editSelectFuzzyPrevMenuItem |
| Select Next Match | Ctrl+↓ | editSelectFuzzyNextMenuItem |
| Select Match #1 | Ctrl+1 | editSelectFuzzy1MenuItem |
| Select Match #2 | Ctrl+2 | editSelectFuzzy2MenuItem |
| Select Match #3 | Ctrl+3 | editSelectFuzzy3MenuItem |
| Select Match #4 | Ctrl+4 | editSelectFuzzy4MenuItem |
| Select Match #5 | Ctrl+5 | editSelectFuzzy5MenuItem |
| Use as Default Translation | editMultipleDefault | |
| Create Alternative Translation | editMultipleAlternate | |
| Remove translation | editRegisterUntranslatedMenuItem | |
| Set empty translation | editRegisterEmptyMenuItem | |
| Register Identical Translation | Ctrl+Shift+S | editRegisterIdenticalMenuItem |
| Menu Item | Default shortcut | Menu Item Code |
|---|---|---|
| Next Untranslated Segment | Ctrl+U | gotoNextUntranslatedMenuItem |
| Next Translated Segment | Ctrl+Shift+U | gotoNextTranslatedMenuItem |
| Next Segment | Ctrl+N or Enter or Tab | gotoNextSegmentMenuItem |
| Previous Segment | Ctrl+P or Ctrl+Enter or Ctrl+Tab | gotoPreviousSegmentMenuItem |
| Segment number... | Ctrl+J | gotoSegmentMenuItem |
| Next Note | gotoNextNoteMenuItem | |
| Previous Note | gotoPreviousNoteMenuItem | |
| Next Unique Segment | Ctrl+Shift+Q | gotoNextUniqueMenuItem |
| Source of Selected Match | Ctrl+Shift+M | gotoMatchSourceSegment |
| Forward in history... | Ctrl+Shift+N | gotoHistoryForwardMenuItem |
| Back in history... | Ctrl+Shift+P | gotoHistoryBackMenuItem |
| Menu Item | Default shortcut | Menu Item Code |
|---|---|---|
| Mark Translated Segments | viewMarkTranslatedSegmentsCheckBoxMenuItem | |
| Mark Untranslated Segments | viewMarkUntranslatedSegmentsCheckBoxMenuItem | |
| Display Source Segments | viewDisplaySegmentSourceCheckBoxMenuItem | |
| Mark Non-Unique Segments | viewMarkNonUniqueSegmentsCheckBoxMenuItem | |
| Mark Segments with Notes | viewMarkNotedSegmentsCheckBoxMenuItem | |
| Mark Non-breakable Spaces | viewMarkNBSPCheckBoxMenuItem | |
| Mark Whitespace | viewMarkWhitespaceCheckBoxMenuItem | |
| Mark Bidirectional Algorithm Control Characters | viewMarkBidiCheckBoxMenuItem | |
| Mark Auto-Populated Segments | viewMarkAutoPopulatedCheckBoxMenuItem | |
| Modification Info/Display None | viewDisplayModificationInfoNoneRadioButtonMenuItem | |
| Modification Info/Display Selected | viewDisplayModificationInfoSelectedRadioButtonMenuItem | |
| Modification Info/Display All | viewDisplayModificationInfoAllRadioButtonMenuItem |
| Menu Item | Default shortcut | Menu Item Code |
|---|---|---|
| Validate Tags | Ctrl+Shift+V | toolsValidateTagsMenuItem |
| Validate Tags for Current Document | toolsSingleValidateTagsMenuItem | |
| Statistics | toolsShowStatisticsStandardMenuItem | |
| Match Statistics | toolsShowStatisticsMatchesMenuItem | |
| Match Statistics per File | toolsShowStatisticsMatchesPerFileMenuItem |
| Menu Item | Default shortcut | Menu Item Code |
|---|---|---|
| Use TAB To Advance | optionsTabAdvanceCheckBoxMenuItem | |
| Always Confirm Quit | optionsAlwaysConfirmQuitCheckBoxMenuItem | |
| Glossary/Display Context Description for TBX Glossaries | optionsGlossaryTBXDisplayContextCheckBoxMenuItem | |
| Use Terms Appearing Separately in the Source Text | optionsGlossaryExactMatchCheckBoxMenuItem | |
| Glossary/Use Stemming for Glossary Entries | optionsGlossaryStemmingCheckBoxMenuItem | |
| TransTips/Enable Transtips | optionsTransTipsEnableMenuItem | |
| Auto-completion/Show Relevant Suggestions Automatically | optionsAutoCompleteShowAutomaticallyItem | |
| Auto-completion/Glossary... | optionsAutoCompleteGlossaryMenuItem | |
| Auto-completion/Auto-text... | optionsAutoCompleteAutoTextMenuItem | |
| Auto-completion/Character Table... | optionsAutoCompleteCharTableMenuItem | |
| Font... | optionsFontSelectionMenuItem | |
| Custom Colours... | optionsColorsSelectionMenuItem | |
| File Filters... | optionsSetupFileFiltersMenuItem | |
| Segmentation... | optionsSentsegMenuItem | |
| Spell checking... | optionsSpellCheckMenuItem | |
| Editing Behavior... | optionsWorkflowMenuItem | |
| Tag Processing... | optionsTagValidationMenuItem | |
| Team... | optionsTeamMenuItem | |
| External TMXs... | optionsExtTMXMenuItem | |
| View... | optionsViewOptionsMenuItem | |
| Saving and Output... | optionsSaveOptionsMenuItem | |
| Proxy Login... | optionsViewOptionsMenuLoginItem | |
| Restore Main Window | optionsRestoreGUIMenuItem | |
| Access Configuration Folder | optionsAccessConfigDirMenuItem |
| Menu Item | Default shortcut | Menu Item Code |
|---|---|---|
| User Manual... | F1 | helpContentsMenuItem |
| About... | helpAboutMenuItem | |
| Last Changes... | helpLastChangesMenuItem | |
| Log... | helpLogMenuItem |
[2] The full syntax for keystrokes (shortcuts) is defined in the following Java 1.6 documentation from Oracle (bottom of page): Java 1.6 keystrokes shortcuts
[3] On the Mac, the modifier meta must be used to specify the command key.
[4] The possible keyevents (keys) are listed in the following Java 1.6 documentation from Oracle: Java 1.6 keyEvents description
[5] The default OmegaT shortcuts are available from Sourceforge: Default OmegaT Shortcuts
The default OmegaT shortcuts for the Mac are also available from Sourceforge, they all use "meta" instead of "ctrl": Default OmegaT Shortcuts for the Mac