Ticket #3725 (new enhancement) — at Version 2
Don't limit hotkeys in user menu to simple letters only
Reported by: | mooffie | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | major | Milestone: | Future Releases |
Component: | mc-core | Version: | master |
Keywords: | Cc: | egmont | |
Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
Branch state: | no branch | Votes for changeset: |
Description (last modified by mooffie) (diff)
Currently, menu labels in the user menu have their 1st character interpreted as hotkeys:
@ Do something on the current file 0 Edit a bug report and send it to root 2 Call the info hypertext browser 3 Compress the current subdirectory (tar.gz) d Delete file if a copy exists in the other directory. ... c Copy to clipboard the current dir's path C Copy to clipboard the current file's path D Copy to clipboard the current file itself X Cut to clipboard the current file itself V Paste files from clipboard Q Copy to clipboard the first URL mentioned in the file.
This is quite limiting when there are many menu items. The attached patch lets the user specify any hotkey. Example (only the last four lines have changed):
@ Do something on the current file 0 Edit a bug report and send it to root 2 Call the info hypertext browser 3 Compress the current subdirectory (tar.gz) d Delete file if a copy exists in the other directory. ... c Copy to clipboard the current dir's path C Copy to clipboard the current file's path ctrl-c Copy to clipboard the current file itself ctrl-x Cut to clipboard the current file itself ctrl-v Paste files from clipboard f2 Copy to clipboard the first URL mentioned in the file.
(only the last four lines have changed: see "ctrl-c" and "f2".)
Note: because of the way hotkeys work in MC (see dlg_try_hotkey()), the hotkeys "alt-x" and "alt-X" are equivalent to pressing just "x". So alt keys shouldn't be used as hotkeys. (dlg_try_hotkey() could be modified to work around this but that's a matter for a separate ticket.)
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Comment:
A different approach to having the hotkey as the 1st word is to embed it in the label using, for example, square brackets:
The advantage in this syntax is that we could then extract such hotkeys from strings in other places, like in the "Directory hotlist" dialog (see screenshot; albeit here (mc2) it's implemented in a very different way).