Re: Define a shortcut key for search

[Keith Roberts <keith karsites net>]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Enrico Weigelt wrote:

> To: mc gnome org
> From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt metux de>
> Subject: Re: Define a shortcut key for search
>
> * Caj Zell <caj zell swipnet se> wrote:
>
> > On Jan 29, 2009, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> > > * Mark Ryden <markryde gmail com> schrieb:
> > >
> > > For now, hotkeys are hardcoded, so you'll have to change 
> > > the code. Is there an reasonable interest in 
> > > configurable key bindings ?
> >
> > Yes, very much so. Changing sort order and toggling of 
> > hidden files view would be very nice to have the 
> > possibility of configuring your own, or at least to have 
> > as shortcuts (in that case, preferably the ones Total 
> > Commander have chosen).
>
> I'm currently thinking of some tiny generic library for 
> this, which does like this:
>
> a) commands have names (maybe even cmdline args ?)
> b) hotkeys are mappings between keycodes and commands
> c) menus/buttons map to command names
> d) the mappings can be loaded from external files
>
> But: using command names doesnt necessarily mean that 
> every time strings have to be passed and parsed, instead 
> an simple function could construct a direct pointer list 
> where the caller works on.
>
>
> cu
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I'd also like to see user-defined shortcut keys for mc 
please. So each user can tailor the shortcut keys for their 
own implementation of mc. Maybe mc could start with a set of 
default shorcuts that could then be customised?

Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts

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