front end - Keyboard shortcut to evaluate notebook

(If this is entirely trivial, although I couldn't find an answer as much as I searched the archives, I will delete the question.)

How could I add a keyboard shortcut to evaluate the entire notebook instead of going to Evaluation -> Evaluate Notebook again and again ?

Answer

Personally I would use what bill_s suggested, Ctrl+A followed by Shift+Enter.

But if you want to have one shortcut you can use what Timothy linked. Just add this line to the KeyEventTranslations.tr file:

 Item[KeyEvent["h", Modifiers -> {Control}], 
      FrontEndExecute[FrontEndToken[SelectedNotebook[ ], "EvaluateNotebook"]]]

it works for me.

Your infinite loop probably showed while testing on the notebook. Well, if you want to evaluate notebook and the last line is

FrontEndTokenExecute["EvaluateNotebook"]

then it will definitelly result in such loop.

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