[Geany-devel] snippet keybindings? - Re: [PATCH] Some editor/snippets/keybindings enhancements

[Nick Treleaven]

On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:08:08 +1000
Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> If we do want snippet keybindings perhaps it would be better to
> >> integrate with the existing keybindings rather than storing them
> >> separately - then users could configure them in the normal way.
> >>
> >
> > It's worth thinking.
> 
> This could be a bit of work since the number of snippets is variable
> and the keybindings GUI is fixed.  I had a quick look a while ago with
> the view of allowing the extra build commands to have keybindings but
> never came up with a simple way of handling variable numbers of
> commands.
> 
> If you decide to add a general way of adding variable numbers of
> entries in the keybindings GUI it could then be used elsewhere.

Plugins can change the number of keybindings in their plugin's key
group*, so maybe this could be done for other things in the core. It
would probably only take some small changes. 'Format->Send
selection to' keybindings could be variable size too.

*
http://www.geany.org/manual/reference/pluginutils_8h.html#e8eeecc54d81ce05457e04ad98028a68

Regards,
Nick