andreas nastke posted on Wed, 10 Jul 2013 09:29:20 +0200 as excerpted: > edit $PAN_HOME/.accels.txt > > Rock schrieb: >> Q: Can we remap Pan's send-article sequence to something less prone to >> accidents?
This isn't Jeopardy and the answer shouldn't come before the question. There's a reason pan complains when the reply is at the top, above the quote it refers to and thus "upside down". ...tub ,txet desrever ekil uoy ebyam ,lleW Hint: echo 'text to be reversed' | rev Meanwhile, to the topic at hand... Yes, except it's accels.txt (it's not a hidden dot-file). The file is simply an unordered (to humans) dump of pan menu entries and the corresponding accels/shortcuts/hotkeys. Pan dumps this file (unordered) at quit and loads it at start, so edit the file when pan's not running, and either don't bother reordering (use your text editor's search function to find the item you want and edit it in place), or if you do reorder it, copy it to a different file, edit that, and copy back to accels.txt so pan can overwrite without killing all the work you did in the copy you actually edited. (I'm not sure if setting accels.txt to read-only would prevent pan from overwriting it as it should if pan uses truncate to empty and append in-place, or if pan simply replaces the existing file, so that wouldn't work.) An initial semicolon indicates a comment and all default entries are commented, so remove the comment if you change a shortcut. Depending on your gtk options, you *MAY* also be able to edit the hotkeys in the pan GUI itself. Hover over the menu entry you wish to change the hotkey for, and hit the desired new hotkey (or delete to simply delete the existing entry). Of course, doing it this way has some limits particularly with alt-key combos, which are menu accels. So for instance in the file menu, you couldn't set alt-t, alt-q or alt-e for anything, as pan would instead execute the corresponding menu accelerator action. But you should be able to set alt-a for an action in the file menu as there's no menu accelerator alt-a there, tho you couldn't for an action in the edit menu, because there's an alt-a menu accelerator /there/. Meanwhile, this is yet another feature that's updated in current pan. Current pan has a shortcuts tab in preferences, allowing you to set/edit/ delete preferences directly in the GUI. =:^) There's also a new pan.hotkeys file that contains the defaults, but the old accels.txt dumpfile is maintained as well, and changes that you make to shortcuts in pan prefs appear in it, rather than in pan.hotkeys, which keeps the defaults. (IOW, you can edit pan.hotkeys but it won't take effect unless you don't have an accels.txt file, since pan.hotkeys is defaults only and not really intended to be manually edited, as the comment at the top of it clearly states.) -- 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-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
