Tim, I'm not trying to be negative, I'm trying to point your energy in the right direction. The Arduino IDE team has already stated that the way to get this into the IDE is via Processing. I don't use these shortcuts, but I can't see how they will hurt to include them. If you hang around for a while you will find that nothing happens overnight when it comes to the IDE. This is generally a good thing that prevents patches from creating more bugs. Here is a link to the Processing site:
Pushing over there will get your shortcuts in faster than here. That is all I was trying to tell you. If you look at my post count, you'll see that I do not post simply to elevate my status.