{"id":307,"date":"2007-02-20T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T04:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/2007\/02\/20\/autolisp-shortcut-command-guidelines\/"},"modified":"2008-03-24T09:37:22","modified_gmt":"2008-03-24T17:37:22","slug":"autolisp-shortcut-command-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/2007\/02\/autolisp-shortcut-command-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"AutoLISP Shortcut Command Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having created many shortcut routines in LISP over the years, I have also developed certain guidelines for naming those shortcuts.<\/p>\n<p>Here are my guidelines for short  key in names\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keep them on the left side of the  keyboard \u2013 close to the left hand that usually rests on the  keyboard<\/li>\n<li>Keep them key-able with one hand.   Don\u2019t make me take my other hand off the mouse.<\/li>\n<li>Keep them somehow associated with  the command name or function. (an abbreviation)<\/li>\n<li>Feel free to double up on  characters<\/li>\n<li>Do not use  numbers in the name<\/li>\n<li>Use three characters if  needed<\/li>\n<li>Use grouped letters that are close  to each other on the keyboard<\/li>\n<li>Do not make me move my hand back and forth on  the keyboard if you use three characters<\/li>\n<li>It is easier to move from left to  right on the keyboard than the other way<\/li>\n<li>It is easier to go from top to  bottom on the keyboard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By following a few tips about naming the abbreviated command you can gain even more speed by reducing the thinking and typing required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having created many shortcut routines in LISP over the years, I have also developed certain guidelines for naming those shortcuts. Here are my guidelines for short key in names\u2026 Keep them on the left side of the keyboard \u2013 close to the left hand that usually rests on the keyboard Keep them key-able with one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-customization","category-lisp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}