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It used to be Ctrl+= in Mathematica 7, but in Mathematica 8 instead of writing below this shortcut starts free-form input. The documentation at tutorial/KeyboardShortcutListing hasn't been updated. Which shortcut is now used for writing below?

dcharles
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Max
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  • @herbalessence which rule does it violate? – Max Mar 25 '11 at 14:07
  • @belisarius is used to move to new line. Old Ctrl+= was used to write something under the symbol but on the same line. It's the opposite for Ctrl+7. – Max Mar 25 '11 at 17:49
  • Hi Max - I still find myself pressing Ctrl+= then getting annoyed at the "linguistic form" box that appears. – Simon Mar 26 '11 at 00:15
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    @herbalessence: This is an ongoing debate. Where should Mathematica frontend questions be asked? We recently added the [mathematica-frontend] tag to try to make these questions more clear. – Simon Mar 26 '11 at 00:17

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Below is Ctrl+4 (or $) now. You can find that information in the file

($InstallationDirectory)\SystemFiles\FrontEnd\TextResources\Windows\KeyEventTranslations.tr

(expand $InstallationDirectory in Mathematica to find this directory)

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    I was about to answer the same. Note that the docs still mention erroneously Ctrl+= as **below**. See http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/menuitem/Typesetting.html under "more info" – Dr. belisarius Mar 25 '11 at 18:26
  • Thank you for the hint about KeyEventTranslations.tr. It's very interesting to look through this file. – Max Mar 25 '11 at 18:39
  • @Max Take a look here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4209405/customizing-mathematica-shortcuts/4209612#4209612 – Dr. belisarius Mar 26 '11 at 06:16