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Better Shortcuts: Switching between page view and continuous view, ability to create a shortcut for automatically numbering rehearsal marks

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Your idea
Cycling between page view, contunuous (horizontal) and continuous (vertical)

Usually, I only wish to enter continuous view or page view from the page view and continuous view respectively. I feel like there is no need for specific, differing shortcuts between the two, I think that one should instead be able to switch between those modes using a single shortcut (maybe something like right shift + tab?). I do not know a use case for the continuous, vertical mode, however, I feel like there is a reason for its existence and it might be a good idea to circle between the three modes, always moving one step forward when the new, unified shortcut is being called?

auto-numbering rehearsal marks

Similar to the shortcut to create an empty rehearsal mark which one can write into (Cmd+M on Mac by default), it would be extremely helpful to have the possibility to assign a shortcut to auto-numbering shortcuts (my preference would be Cmd + Shift + M).

Problem to be solved

Significant notation efficiency boost for composers who like to switch between continuous view and page view frequently - an extra mouse movement is being saved.

Also, a significant speed increase for people who notate rehearsal marks frequently and want to use the auto-numbering mode.

Prior art

The first idea is pretty similar to copying files with Cmd+C and copying file paths with Cmd+Shift+C: you can copy a different and less frequently required information about the target object with a slightly more complicated shortcut. However the semantic similarity is huge!

The IDE PyCharm (and other JetBrains IDEs?) have a shortcut to comment out a line of code. If the line is already commented out, the same shortcut can be used to comment it back in.
I believe that one can find many more instances of a single shortcut being used to switch between binary (or ternary) states.

bonus: Feel free to think about more instances where switching between binary/ternary states could be simplified to using a single shortcut in Musescore as well!

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Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are identified. Start by locating the existing commands for page/continuous view and rehearsal-mark insertion, then confirm how shortcuts are configured. Done means implementing the requested shortcut behavior for both view cycling and automatically numbered rehearsal marks, with coverage for the resulting commands.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
desktop
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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