[Geany-Users] SnippetsKeybindings

[Lex Trotman]

On 29 April 2018 at 21:56, Geoff Kaniuk <geoff at kaniuk.co.uk> wrote:
> Thank you Lex for your quick response.
>
> The  Help->Keyboard Shortcuts is useful, but rather I was looking for the
> inverse: i.e given a key press, what does it do? In the meantime I
> remembered that all the keybindigs are stored locally in
> keybindings.conf, and I have now created an index from that.
>
> It shows that some of the standard non-alphanumeric keys on the keyboard
> have not need used such as (`), ([) and certainly <Ctrl>[ does produce my
> brace_inline.
>
> Experimenting with keybindings->change shows that <Primary><Shift>~
> can be used as a keybinding (for build options for example). However the
> snippet brace_inline=<Ctrl><Shift>~ failed.

Did you try <Primary><Shift>~ as was printed by the dialog?

>
>
> Are shift keys not allowed in keybinding snippets?
>
> Geoff
>
> 33 Ashbury Close, Cambridge CB1 3RW 01223 710582
>
>
> On 29/04/18 01:04, Lex Trotman wrote:
>>
>> 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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