On Fri, 1 Mar 2024 at 05:03, e.antonoff--- via Users users@lists.geany.org wrote:
Hello,
PROBLEM: I want to make key bindings for some custom tools I set Geany to run. Geany version 1.38 "Sulamar", running on Lubuntu 22.04 LTS.
So in the "Set build commands" panel I have set some custom python utilities to run. Please see the included screenshot. So far so good and they work when I execute them from within Geany.
My accent for the question are what I defined under "Python commands" - mypy and Lint (which runs 'flake8') and then on the bottom in "Execute commands" as "Pythonic format" which runs 'black' (yes, unfortunately there are only 3 entries for "Python commands", while I need 4 in reality but so far I can live with it).
Edit->Preferences->Various->build.number* can set as many menu items to each section as you need. They default to 0 because originally these "Various" settings were to be added (ie there was no default entry) by editor to settings files because Geany must be restarted for them to take effect, so the Build menu code guarantees the default values of 3,4,2 as shown in the Build settings dialog so errors in the files won't make the menu unusable. But when the Various section was added to preferences, the code has no method to set the values to 3,4,2 in the new menu elements if the file has no entries so it shows 0 :-(.
But...
Actual QUESTION is - HOW to assign key bindings for the 3 tools I am most interested in - mypy, flake8 and black ?
...the keybindings menu Edit->Preferences->Keybindings->Build is fixed, so it can only assign keybindings to the original Menu items that existed before the build menu was made variable. Fixing that will take a serious redesign of the keybindings menu since the whole thing is designed fixed AFAIK, and so nobody has done it.
But ...
The "Set build commands" panel does not offer such thing and in Preferences > Key bindings > Build I don't see the tools I have set in "Set build commands".
In fact maybe there is a way to add any number of custom tools for Geany to run with various keybindings, but I haven't figured it out yet ?
... even though you cannot set single key keybindings you can set accelerators for all the Build commands, Alt+b to show the menu and a character (shown underlined in the menu) to activate the command. You set this character in the Build settings menu by placing an underscore in the label before the character, eg Foo_bah will make the accelerator b. The accelerators should be unique across all your menu labels of course.
Bottom line, you can set as many build menu items as you want, but can't set keybindings for any other than those that existed before the Build menu was made variable but you can set accelerators instead.
Cheers Lex
Thanks!
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