[Geany-Users] SnippetsKeybindings

Lex Trotman elextr at xxxxx
Sun Apr 29 00:04:30 UTC 2018


On 29 April 2018 at 02:05, Geoff Kaniuk <geoff at kaniuk.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello Geany List,
>
> I am trying to create a shortcut key to insert an in-line block. Ideally
> what I would like is to type Ctrl+KEY which then produces { | }. Searching
> through the Keybindings documentation in the Geany manual, I found that
> KEY=4 works, but no other alpha key works.
>
> I have made the following additions to my snippets.conf:
>
> [Special]
> brace_inline={ %cursor% }
>
> [Keybindings]
> brace_inline=<Ctrl>4
> block_cursor=<Ctrl>8
>
> [C++]
> bi_=%brace_inline%
>
> The <Ctrl>4 binding works.
> The <Ctrl>8 binding works
> The bi_TAB snippet works.
>
> It took quite a bit of experimenting and searching to discover the Ctrl+4
> solution.  I really would like to get this under my belt as key binding in
> snippets is a really very useful feature.  My questions are:
>
> Is there somewhere an index of which keys have been allocated?

Help->Keyboard Shortcuts?

>
> Which keys I can use in [keybindings]

Try it in the keybindings change sub-dialog, you press the sequence
and it tells you the spelling.

>
> Many thanks for any hints as to where I should be looking.
>
> --
> Geoff
>
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