--- In [email protected], jean-pierre charras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Magnus Beischer a écrit : > > I want to try the hotkey feature, but don't know how and can't find > > any documentation about it. Can anyone give me a clue or upload a > > hotkey "template" file to the files section? > > > > > There is no template file, because kicad creates the template file on > the fly (This allows template files be "up to date" which includes your > hotkeys and new hotkeys when kicad changes) > This is 4 steps way: > 1 - Run eeschema (or pcbnew), open preferences menu and click on "Create > Hotkey config file". > 2 - With a text editor, change hotkey values (there are comments to do > that within the hotkey file: eeschema.key or pcbney.key) > 3 - Rerun eeschema (better) ( or reread hotkey file in preferences menu > for fast test) If no bugs, it must be work (I hope it). > 4 - Write a small ( or big ) tutorial about this (under OpenOffice) and > send me it. > > -- > > Jean-Pierre CHARRAS > > Maître de conférences > Directeur d'études 2ieme année. > Génie Electrique et Informatique Industrielle 2 > Institut Universitaire de Technologie 1 de Grenoble > BP 67, 38402 St Martin d'Heres Cedex > > Recherche : > GIPSA-LIS - INPG > 46, Avenue Félix Viallet > 38031 Grenoble cedex >
When opening the actual file in my "home" directory I completely understand. What confused me was that I configured Emacs as the text editor to be used by KiCAD and when using Emacs KiCad don't open the hotkey file in the right way. My guess is that KiCad passes the wrong arguments to emacs. Is there a reason for not allowing the keys 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 to be used as hotkeys? I would love to define them as hotkeys for my layers (instead of PgUp, F5, F6 and PgDown). // Magnus
