
ThreadID := DllCall("GetWindowThreadProcessId", "UInt", hWnd, "UInt", 0) With the help of I came up with this half-working AHK script: Undo Working solutions involving AutoHotKey are welcome.
#Keyboard shortcut for redo vs undo free
Good solution shall be implemented in Windows directly without any additional software, or only free open source software. This behavior is consistent among all version of Windows I know and related deeply in the initial keyboard layout designs, which are just incompatible for users happen to use German-Russian language pair like me. I cannot find any information about creating custom layout for Windows or patching the current one. The same problem is solved on Ubuntu by creating a custom keyboard layout.

Using English layout permanently for all kind of latin based texts although fixes the issue with jumping Undo/Redo shortcuts, but is not an option for me, because I need to type German texts with all umlauts and ß (do not suggest an international layout to enter accents, because German is my primary language and I want to type its native letters with one keystroke).Īs the colleague in the referenced question already mentioned, there is no obvious answer in the Internet. I want to fix the physical location (keys) of the Redo and Undo shortcuts in the whole set of Windows applications either to German or better English layout. Since I use Undo and Redo shortcuts very often, this behavior irritates me a lot. As you can imagine I am always pressing the wrong shortcut, because it is impossible to learn two osciallating opposite patterns, at least my spine brain protests. That means that the location of Undo and Redo shortcuts is changing to the opposite all the time I switch the keyboard layout. This is location is identical to the location of Ctrl-Z and Ctrl-Y on the standard English keyboard layout. Undo (Ctrl-Z) is located now on Y (lower row, left to X) and the Redo on Z (upper row, between T and U). Undo and Redo shortcuts mutually change their position on the keyboard. If you switch the layout to the Russian, suddenly an evil thing is happening.

The Redo (Ctrl-Y) is binded to the key Y, which is located left to X in the low row of letters on the German QWERTZ layout.

If I use German layout, the Undo shortcut (Ctrl-Z) is binded to the key Z, which is located in the middle of the first letter row between T and U. The problem is related to the fact that letters Y and Z are switched in the German keyboard layout comparing to the standard English QWERTY layout.
#Keyboard shortcut for redo vs undo windows 10
I am using German and Russian keyboard layouts extensively on my Windows 10 workstation and switch often between them. I am mimicking another victim of keyboard layout chaos, which suffers from similar yet slightly different issue.
