Michael Wild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:19:04 +0200:
> i know how to customize the key bindings in pan (the method mentioned in > the FAQ by pointing on the menu item and then pressing the key > combination). however, this seems to work only for "modified" keys, not > for unmodified ones (e.g. "Ctrl-a" works fine, "a" however doesn't). i can > see that there are some unmodified keys assigned by default, so it should > be possible... however, i can't seem to find where pan stores the key > bindings (i couldn't find it in gconf and ~/.pan2). the only thing i came > up with is the file ~/.pan2/accels.txt which is a dump of the key > bindings. Interesting. I hadn't been able to get the GUI edit method to work with new-pan, tho it worked with old-pan (0.14.x) just fine. It's probably that old gtk setting that I thought was no longer needed. There are two different ways to address your question. 1) In old-pan, and I assume in new-pan, adding unmodified accels using the GUI method DID work, but there was one BIG exception. Any accel used as a /menu/ accel couldn't be added with the GUI, because it would trigger the menu action instead and that took precedence. As an example, in the file menu, you couldn't add the "w" accel to any function, since it's a /menu/ accel for "Work Online". You could however add the "z" accel, since it's not a menu accel in that menu, or "ctrl-w", since the modifier cancels the menu accel effect. You could also add "w" as an accel on a different menu where it's not used as a menu accel. 2) The file you mentioned, accels.txt, is indeed where pan stores the accels. Edit it and you edit pan's accel mapping. Of course, you must edit it with pan closed, or when you close the pan session with the existing mappings, it'll overwrite the new ones you just saved. There are some tricks to editing the file, however. First, beginning a line with a semicolon (;) indicates a comment -- pan ignores that line. All the default accels are commented, so don't forget to remove that semicolon when you change them or pan will ignore the change. Second, pan overwrites the file at every close with an unordered dump of its existing accel mapping. This means that editing it is a bit of a challenge. For just one or two changes, using your text editor's find function is probably easiest. For more systematic changes, it's worthwhile to make a separate edit copy, reorder it to menu order or whatever, and always make your changes there, then copy it over the pan version so pan will pick up the changes next time it opens (and again overwrite the nice formatting next time it closes, but that's fine, since it's not your edit copy). I have attached under my sig (using the pan-attach script I've posted in the past, in text/identity mode) a copy of my accels.txt edit file, which should be useful. Even if you don't particularly like my accels scheme, it's in menu order, saving you the hassle of duplicating my reordering effort. As well, it illustrates a couple useful techniques I've picked up with experience. Note the breaking up into sections by menu using comment lines, and the used accels table at the bottom. The latter was very useful as I was setting up the scheme, making it easy to see which accels were used and which were available for use, altho it does mean making changes in two different places, the table and the actual accel, any time I change something. The scheme used is designed to be fairly simple. The "a" accel with and without modifier is used for two things, for instance, the traditional ctrl-a select-all (ctrl-a for all article, add the alt for the alternate function, all headers), and for "article", as in "a" for "next article", shift-a (shift as negate/undo) for previous article, alt-a (alt again indicates alt-function) for next /unread/ article, etc. Similarly for g=groups, t=threads, etc. Again, you may or may not find the scheme itself useful. If not, it'll still be easier to modify this file than to duplicate the time I spend reordering mine, and it does usefully illustrate the section comment and accel table concepts. Of course, once you switch to the manual edit file method over the gui method, you can't use the GUI method for any permanent changes unless you have no interest in using the manual method again, as the changes won't be propagated back to the edit file. You can of course still experiment with a change using the GUI, and then erase or make the change permanent by either overwriting the pan file with the edit file, or making the change in the edit file. Hope this has helped! =8^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ; pan GtkAccelMap rc-file -*- scheme -*- ; this file is an automated accelerator map dump ;############################################################################### ;############################################################################### ;############################################################################### ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/file-menu" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/import-tasks" "<Control>o") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/cancel-last-task" "<Control>Delete") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/work-online" "l") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/show-task-window" "<Control><Alt><Shift>t") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/show-log-dialog" "<Control><Alt><Shift>l") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/quit" "<Control>q") ;############################################################################### ;############################################################################### ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/edit-menu" "") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/select-all-articles" "<Control><Alt>a") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/add-subthreads-to-selection" "<Control><Shift>t") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/add-threads-to-selection" "<Control>t") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/add-similar-articles-to-selection" "") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/unselect-all-articles" "<Shift><Alt><Control>a") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/select-article-body" "<Control>a") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/show-servers-dialog" "<Control><Alt><Shift>n") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/show-profiles-dialog" "<Control><Alt><Shift>p") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/show-preferences-dialog" "<Control>p") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/show-group-preferences-dialog" "<Control><Alt><Shift>g") ;############################################################################### ;############################################################################### ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/view-menu" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/show-toolbar" "") ;############################################################################### ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/view-layout-menu" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/tabbed-layout" "z") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/jump-to-group-tab" "1") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/jump-to-header-tab" "2") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/jump-to-body-tab" "3") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/show-group-pane" "<Control>1") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/show-header-pane" "<Control>2") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/show-body-pane" "<Control>3") ;############################################################################### ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/view-group-pane-menu" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/shorten-group-names" "b") ;############################################################################### ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/view-header-pane-menu" "") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/thread-headers" "<Control><Alt>t") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/show-matching-articles" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/show-matching-threads" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/show-matching-subthreads" "") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/match-only-unread-articles" "r") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/match-only-cached-articles" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/match-only-binary-articles" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/match-only-my-articles" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/match-watched-articles" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/match-high-scoring-articles" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/match-medium-scoring-articles" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/match-normal-scoring-articles" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/match-low-scoring-articles" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/match-ignored-articles" "") ;############################################################################### ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/view-body-pane-menu" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/wrap-article-body" "w") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/mute-quoted-text" "q") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/show-all-headers" "h") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/rot13-selected-text" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/monospace-font-enabled" "c") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/show-smilies-as-graphics" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/show-text-markup" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/size-pictures-to-fit" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/smooth-scrolling" "") ;############################################################################### ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/character-encoding-menu" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/charset-ISO-8859-4" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/charset-ISO-8859-13" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/charset-windows-1257" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/charset-ISO-8859-2" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/charset-windows-1250" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/charset-gb2312" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/charset-big5" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/charset-ISO-8859-5" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/charset-windows-1251" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/charset-KOI8-R" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/charset-KOI8-U" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/charset-ISO-8859-7" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/charset-ISO-2022-jp" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/charset-euc-kr" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/charset-ISO-8859-9" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/charset-ISO-8859-1" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/charset-ISO-8859-15" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/charset-windows-1252" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/charset-UTF-8" "") ;############################################################################### ;############################################################################### ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/go-menu" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/read-more" "space") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/read-less" "BackSpace") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/read-next-unread-group" "<Alt>g") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/read-next-group" "g") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/read-next-unread-article" "<Alt>a") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/read-next-article" "a") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/read-next-watched-article" "") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/read-previous-article" "<Shift>a") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/read-parent-article" "<Alt><Shift>a") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/read-next-unread-thread" "<Alt>t") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/read-next-thread" "t") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/read-previous-thread" "<Shift>t") ;############################################################################### ;############################################################################### ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/group-actions-menu" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/read-selected-group" "") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/mark-groups-read" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/download-headers" "") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/get-new-headers-in-selected-groups" "<Alt><Control>h") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/get-new-headers-in-subscribed-groups" "<Control>h") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/subscribe" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/unsubscribe" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/refresh-group-list" "") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/delete-groups-articles" "") ;############################################################################### ;############################################################################### ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/article-actions-menu" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/save-articles" "<Shift>s") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/read-selected-article" "") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/download-selected-article" "d") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/mark-article-read" "m") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/mark-article-unread" "<Shift>m") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/view-article-score" "s") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/add-article-score" "<Control>s") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/watch-thread" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/ignore-thread" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/plonk" "") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/print" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/delete-article" "Delete") ;############################################################################### ;############################################################################### ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/posting-actions-menu" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/post" "p") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/followup" "f") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/reply-to" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/supersede-article" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/cancel-article" "") ;############################################################################### ;############################################################################### ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/help-menu" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/pan-web-page" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/tip-jar" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/bug-report" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Actions/about-pan" "") ;############################################################################### ;############################################################################### ;############################################################################### ; ********* Used Accel table ********* ; Char Pln Ctl Shf CtlShf Alt CtlAlt AltShf CtlAltSh ; a a c-a s-a a-a ca-a as-a cas-a ; b b ; c c ; d d ; e ; f f ; g g a-g cas-g ; h h c-h ca-h ; i ; j ; k ; l l cas-l ; m m s-m ; n cas-n ; o c-o ; p p c-p cas-p ; q q c-q ; r r ; s s c-s s-s ; t t c-t s-t cs-t a-t ca-t cas-t ; u u ; v v ; w w ; x ; y ; z z ; backtick doesn't work ; 1 1 c-1 ; 2 2 c-2 ; 3 3 c-3 ; 4 ; 5 ; 6 ; 7 ; 8 ; 9 ; 0 ; - ; = ; home home ; end end ; pgup pgup ; pgdn pgdn ; ins ; del del c-del ; 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