Re: [Pan-users] Is there a way to remap the "Pan File->Send Article" Control+Return hotkey?

[Duncan]

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".

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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.)

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