On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 14:44:58 -0500 Christopher Barry
<[email protected]> said:

> Hi,
> 
> Is there a way to dump my key assignments to a text file? Like a
> cheat-sheet type thing?
> 
> I go in there, get all gung-ho, set a bunch of cool hot-keys, then
> immediately forget them... It would be great to be able to dump the
> list of all possible actions with their current assignments (or blank if
> unassigned).
> 
> Possible? It's not even feasible to screenshot the dialog, because I'd
> need an entire screenshot for every possible hot-key!
> 
> Another ignorant question: when I select an action that is already
> assigned to a key combo, why is the  assigned key combo not also
> highlighted? This makes finding the hot-key, if set, not discoverable
> by selecting the desired action, and is a bit confusing.
> 
> Wondering if it's just using an inappropriate UI paradigm for the task
> at hand. A sort-able, tabular format might be simpler and more intuitive.

it is a list of your bindings. each line is an entry/binding. no - it doesnt
list the thing its bound to in the list next to it, but i think you have a
special problem yourself of not remembering :)

you can dump the e config into text:

eet -d ~/.e/econfig/standard/e.cfg config out.txt

trawl through out.txt.

> For instance, adding a new key would add a new table row of two fields,
> HotKey and Action, with the left 'HotKey' field selected, and the modal
> 'Enter HotKey' dialog open. Enter the HotKey, and if it does not
> already exist, it's entered into the left field, and the cursor is
> automatically moved to the right field where the type of entry field is
> a sorted drop-down list with all possible actions to assign - possibly
> filtered to exclude (or gray out) already assigned actions.
> 
> Then potentially this table could be sent to the printer as a formatted
> two column table for use as a cheatsheet/backup, and maybe even saved to
> an importable textfile to setup other boxes easily with your preferred
> hotkeys.

you have a very very very special problem there. i have never seen anyone with
a printed out paper of keybindings for their wm on their desk. cubicle wall
etc. - this would be a lot of support to support printing for the only case i
have ever heard of needing printing out of bindings. :)

the reason the ui is as it is is because that works best with the widgets we
have atm with the least amount of effort. e has had forever on the todo to
"clean up settings dialogs". we can improve them, but this takes a lot of time
and effort.

> Maybe it's already like this in E20?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Christopher
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