Umm. Broken internals.... Heh. Basically, to do this cleanly, I'd have to do a major overhaul of bbkeys's internals. Not so much because they're broken now as much as the paradigm for how bbkeys operates would COMPLETELY change, not to mention a radical departure from what morel was working on as far as implementing rudimentary keybinding support in blackbox proper. There's no way I'd want to do something like this if it's not done right. And by "right" I mean in a manner that is consistent throughout bbkeys itself as well as the configuration tools, and cleanly coded, easy to maintain and follow.
More than anything, I'm curious if anyone else has the desire/need for this kind of functionality. If I understand it correctly, this is leaning towards the Emacs model of keybindings that allow "chaining" things. So, you press <alt+M> and then press <control+Up> to do something. I would like to get some feedback from the blackbox user community on this--both interest in this sort of functionality as well as comments against it (if there's any). Thanks in advance, vanRijn -----Forwarded Message----- From: Scott Moynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: BlackBox Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: chained keygrabs Date: 13 Nov 2001 02:21:23 -0500 Here is a patch to allow rudimentary support for chained keygrabbing. It allows you to specify one global prefix which must preceed any other keybinding. For example: KeyToGrab(m), WithModifier(Control), WithAction(Prefix) KeyToGrab(a), WithModifier(Control), WithAction(ExecCommand),DoThis(aterm) would allow you to hit Ctrl-m and then Ctrl-a to start aterm. Proper chaining will not be complete untill some of the broken internals of bbkeys are fixed. It is against the current CVS codebase. If there is any interest, I'd be persuaded to create a proper patch file. -- Copyleft (c) 2001, Scott Moynes ---- <patch snipped for brevity>
