Assign Pan to Spacebar
@jlawlorSNLBE wrote:
.... if [enter] and [spacebar] currently do the same thing....
They do only in certain circumstances. They don't in Text or Mtext or Dimension-text-override or Attribute-value entry, nor in entering Layer or Block names which are allowed to have spaces in them [that hasn't always been the case]. In the case of either Enter or space recalling the last-used command, I greatly prefer the space bar, which I can whap with my left thumb, rather than moving my hand over [or taking my right hand off the mouse] to get to the Enter key. Nor would I want to be required to use only Enter to conclude typing in a command name or alias.
Is your idea that the space bar would just be a space bar when following other typed content, but would call up the Pan command only when it's the first thing at a Command prompt?
If Macs don't have mouse wheels that let you Pan without using the keyboard at all, I imagine that's a reason the space bar calls up Pan, though I wonder how they decided what command to put there.
@jlawlorSNLBE wrote:
... it would act like a spacebar when I'm typing text, but be the pan tool otherwise. .... in the Mac version where its a user preference .... I would select it. You would not
I might if I used a Mac, and couldn't Pan by press-and-drag with a mouse wheel [I think that's the "limitation reason" @pendean was referring to]. But how does it work? With no command active, you hit the space bar, and.... I'm not sure what you mean by "be the pan tool." Does is simply start a Pan command, the same as if you typed in the command name? Then you pick two points with the mouse for the Pan displacement? Does it show the Panning happening dynamically between those two point picks, so you can see where you'll end up? Or maybe you press-and-drag with the mouse? Something else?
Also, if you want to do another of whatever command [of any kind] you just used, is there a way to simply recall it [as the space bar does in the Windows version when no command is active]? Or do you need to type it in again, or navigate to a menu item somewhere and invoke it again?
