The key-binding tag has no wiki summary.
2
votes
2answers
49 views
How can I “bind” a key combination to start a Windows 8 application? [duplicate]
Is it possible to assign shortcut keys to windows 8 applications? For instance, I want calendar to be easily accessible so that i can just press one key or a combination like WINDOWS+C and it shows me ...
0
votes
1answer
29 views
Is there a way to change the left alt key to be set as the spacebar?
I tried a few regedit tools and keyboard editing programs, they mostly say that the alt key is not configurable. My spacebar is broken and making my alt key the spacebar seems like the easiest and ...
0
votes
0answers
18 views
How to make vimperator keybings not work for newsfox?
With modes.passAllKeys I can make Vimperator not work for some urls, Gmail, for instance. Now I use newsfox to read RSS news, but newsfox use a special fixed url chrome://newsfox/content/newsfox.xul, ...
0
votes
1answer
66 views
tmux key binding: Window not found
My problem is I can't make tmux key bindings to switch windows.
I'm running tmux terminal multiplexer on the FreeBSD server. tmux is started automatically for all remote logins using ~/.bash_profile:
...
1
vote
1answer
319 views
How to modify key bindings in Windows 8
I have a new laptop which combines the PgUp/Home and PgDn/End keys, requiring a function key to be pressed for the Home/End use. Since I regularly use Home and End, but rarely use Page Up/Down I want ...
0
votes
1answer
21 views
How do I use windows style Home and End on OSX in Vim (iterm2)
Having tried many options to replicate Home, End functionality (for beginning of line and end of line), from windows to OSX, I have got to the point where it works everywhere except in vim. I am ...
-1
votes
2answers
148 views
bash home/end/delete key inserting tilde, or if preceded by escape key, [1~ [3~
bash home/end/delete key inserting tilde, or if preceded by escape key, [1~
say I type echo hellp, move cursor to hel|lp and type delete, and bam, i got ~tilde
say I type echo hellp, move cursor to ...
0
votes
0answers
26 views
Linux: can't recognize the combination Ctl and letter, like Ctl+K Ctl+J
Trying to set Ctl+J Ctl+K to Up/Down as I used to do, using xdotool key Up/Down.
But setting the shortcut in gnome keyboard properties or in compiz manager doens't work. you can set it to F6 for ...
0
votes
1answer
74 views
Rebind Win+F hotkey in Windows 7
I want to remove the standard "Find" from Win+F and bind the key combination to my own program.
Is there a way to perform this task without any hook applications, for example, changes made through ...
0
votes
0answers
88 views
Linux: Left control key binding as shortcut
Linux:Mint 14 Mate
I am trying to bind the left control to open the Run Dialog on Linux, usually opened by Alt-F2 , but the configuration manager refuse to assign this single key to a macro.
I ...
0
votes
1answer
37 views
elcipse shortcut interference with windows 7 desktop rotation
I use Ctrl+Alt+Down in eclipse ide, for copying lines.
Recently, I started using windows 7, and the above key combination is not being detected by eclipse, but rather picked up by windows 7 which ...
2
votes
1answer
202 views
iTerm2 vim cannot map alt key
I'm having trouble trying to map the alt-key bindings on vim in iTerm2. I want to map shortcuts for switching between buffers like this:
map <A-Right> <C-w>l
map <A-Left> ...
1
vote
1answer
57 views
How do I use inoremap with multiple characters?
I am new to ViM customization. I am almost done getting autocompletion to work as I would like. Here is the line of interest:
inoremap <expr> i (pumvisible() ? '' : 'i<C-n>') . ...
6
votes
1answer
218 views
Why do `bind` and `.inputrc` behave differently?
I'm trying to do the right thing and put my key bindings into ~/.inputrc.
However, it turns out that I have to change
bind '"\e\C-j":"\e[1~quiet \e[4~\n"'
into
"\e\C-j": "\eOHquiet \eOF\n"
Now ...
0
votes
1answer
69 views
irssi keybinding: backward_word/forward_word
I'm currently experimenting with irssi as my irc client of choice and I'm getting along pretty well.
BUT there is one thing I still need to get done. Somehow it isn't possible for me to use the usual ...
1
vote
1answer
83 views
How to source key translations in emacs?
I'd like to use C-c B as a binding, only it seems to be already bound :
C-c b (translated from C-c B) runs the command …
How can I see where's the code that binds it ?
How to overrule it myself ?
...
1
vote
1answer
117 views
Disable Ctrl-A shortcut in OSX / Firefox
OSX has Emacs keybindings on all text fields, that means Ctrl+A takes you to the start of line.
In Firefox, sometimes, Ctrl+A activates the "Highlight All" option of the Find bar, instead of taking ...
1
vote
1answer
541 views
Configuring Xbindkeys bindings for Logitech M510 mouse
On Windows 7 my mouse buttons are configured with Logitech SetPoint software.
But today I installed Ubuntu 12.04 with Wubi. Of course my extra buttons are not working now on Ubuntu. I installed ...
0
votes
2answers
93 views
How to alias keybindings in emacs?
For instance, I get to use C-c a a a lot, and would like to easily map this to f1.
I know I can search for what function the first binding finaly calls (this time it was org-agenda-list), but I'm ...
2
votes
0answers
72 views
Alt, Meta and other modifier keys
I want to get more combos in Emacs, so I tried to bind Alt, Super, Hyper via modmap to keys. I failed at it. So I tried to use xdotool.
I started emacs -Q for clean experiment. Pressed C-hc and ...
0
votes
0answers
108 views
How to bind the play button on my Mac to the Soundcloud app?
i'm currently running Mountain Lion and I'd like to bind my play keyboard button F8 to the Soundcloud app.
How would I go about doing this?
1
vote
1answer
176 views
How do I “unbind” Ctrl+BackSpace in URxvt?
My URxvt is mapping the Ctrl+BackSpace key combination to Ctrl+H. This is extremely annoying when using GNU Emacs.
How do I change that behavior?
1
vote
1answer
149 views
Program to switch active window/program?
I'm interested in program that can utilize additional buttons of G15, or can be bound to special hotkey like ctrl+alt+shift+F9 in order to change active window.
Why do i need it? I'm playing game ...
0
votes
1answer
82 views
libkeybinder error Arch linux
I am trying to install a package that depends on python-keybinder and hence on libkeybinder. When I run makepkg for libkeybinder, it starts and after sometime I get the following error:
checking for ...
2
votes
1answer
268 views
How to bind left-shift+mouse-up/down-scroll to page-up/down in Windows 7
I have found many ways to bind a key or key-combination to start a process or another key, how do I do it with mouse and keyboard combinations?
I want windows to do a page-up when hold shift and ...
1
vote
0answers
48 views
How to check bound hotkeys in the system?
An application must have bound itself to the key combination of the "}" character on my machine, and I cannot write this character anymore. Is there an application to check the hot key bindings in the ...
1
vote
1answer
460 views
How to bindkey alt+key in OSX
I am using oh-my-zsh configuration which has some handy bindkey condiguration. For example: "^[B" backward-word. On Linux I can use it with ease, but on OSX when I press alt-B i get some chars instead ...
1
vote
1answer
69 views
How to replace a keymap in emacs?
I'm currently in the process of changing my emacs configuration quite extensively. I'm not comfortable with the default key-bindings for a lot of the major and minor modes and my configuration ...
5
votes
1answer
363 views
OSX Remapping Physical Trackpad Click for Mac
The MacBook trackpad is a marvellous thing. Assuming that one uses the 'tap to click' functionality exclusively (including the double tap to click-hold within Usability settings) as I do, the physical ...
1
vote
1answer
250 views
How to use Control as modifier with xmodmap?
So I'm trying to create a combination of keys to generate ISO keys for the Portuguese layout, the key in question is the < >, pressing it will normally generate the < character, < > + Shift ...
2
votes
2answers
494 views
Firefox doesn't recognize my “ALT” keys anymore
Ubuntu 12.04, Firefox 13.0, xfce
For some reason, my Firefox installation has stopped paying attention to ALT keystroke combinations. That is, when I try an ALT-something key combination, I get the ...
1
vote
0answers
153 views
iterm2 emacsclient keybindings
I have just switched from using Emacs.app to emacsserver and emacsclient in terminal mode using iterm2 as my terminal emulator. I am having some trouble with some keybindings though. Particularly ...
2
votes
2answers
517 views
Can I interchange my “Home, End” keys with “PageUp, PageDown” keys on dell latitude laptop?
The Home,End keys are at the top row in my laptop, and I use them most while selecting the entire line by pressing (Shift+Home, Shift+End) - it is very inconvenient. On the other hand, "PageUp, ...
0
votes
0answers
87 views
Use Joypad as a MIDI MPC
I found an old Boeder joypad which works on MIDI.
How can I bind joystick keys to other codes (to be correct with percussion notes) or keyboard keys?
0
votes
0answers
56 views
How to change a next tab key binding in ubuntu?
I have changed a global key binding of switch window to be <Control>Tab in Configuration Editor, but now I lost a key binding of switch tab.
How can I change a key binding of switch tab to be ...
2
votes
1answer
126 views
Emacs rebind C-i while keeping <tab> bindings
I'm using Aquamacs. It can distinguish between <tab>, the actual tab key, and TAB, which comes from typing C-i. I want to bind C-i to 'next-line permanently. This works for that:
...
2
votes
1answer
66 views
How to map // to ~/?
Is it possible to remap ~/ to //?
I want to be able to do something like cat //something.txt and have it be running cat ~/something.txt
Or if this isn't possible, mapping ~ to something easier to ...
1
vote
1answer
353 views
Gnome 3 global keybinds gone after update
Yesterday I did a full system update (the old one dates back less than a month) and now all my global keybindings don't work anymore. They are created via "gconf-editor" and are located in ...
0
votes
1answer
128 views
Can LALT+TAB be re-binded to another combination?
In Windows 7, could the "cycle windows", by default bound to LALT+TAB, be re-binded to another combination (without altering the keyboard layout itself).
1
vote
0answers
36 views
compiling c and running code via keybinding
I want to compile and run my c code via key binding
gnome-terminal -e make ~/Graphics && /home/johnr/Graphics/se
so i add that to command one and get the global key <Alt>r as the ...
3
votes
1answer
317 views
How to remap control keys in MS Layout Creator
edit: I successfully user KeyTweak to remap the keys. However doing so remaps them for all keyboard layouts. Is there a way to remap them only for my custom layout (created, as I said earlier, with MS ...
1
vote
2answers
563 views
Enable Ctrl (or Alt) + arrow keys to mimic 'home' and 'end' functionality
I am a long time Mac user and I'm now using a Ubuntu machine for development, and while I'm more or less used to a lot of the keyboard shortcuts, one thing I can't get used to is using the 'Home' and ...
1
vote
0answers
105 views
keymapping when ssh-ing from mac to linux
I'm using Lion to ssh -X to a linux machine and work on some code thats located on it. I open up an editor on the remote machine (usually matlab) and program on it.
My problem is that in the linux ...
2
votes
2answers
231 views
fish control-left control-right keybindings
I'm using terminator along with fish and I want to use Alt-Left etc for navigating terminator and Ctrl-Left and Ctrl-right to move the cursor by word. The problem is when I do
bind \cleft ...
0
votes
0answers
288 views
How can I make the backspace key delete one character backwards in tcsh? [closed]
I have a clean installation of openSuse. This automatically sets up bash as the default shell.
For historic reasons, all of the aliases and shortcuts I want to port from an old computer are in tcsh, ...
4
votes
1answer
115 views
In Emacs, how to define a keyboard shortcut to quickly enclose highlighted text with <tag> and </tag>?
In Emacs, how to define a keyboard shortcut to quickly enclose highlighted text with <tag> and </tag>, optionally prompting for inputting the tag name tag?
1
vote
1answer
113 views
How can I get outlook to do emacs bindings?
I'm not even sure that this is possible. However, here goes.
I am a follower of the true church of Emacs. My fingers know the key bindings, and they just do stuff. Normally this is great. The ...
0
votes
1answer
1k views
How to remap HID keyboard keys?
I got some "close to useless" USB sleep buttons for computers from a marketing campaign and was wondering how to use it to something cooler. Like.. Playing sad trombone when pressed.
So I went around ...
3
votes
2answers
262 views
How to define a shortcut (key combination) to insert “<tag></tag>” in Emacs?
I want to define a shortcut to enter XML tag pairs. Pressing key combination key1-key2 which should prompt for entering a tag name, .e.g. "foo", and automatically insert "<foo></foo>". ...
5
votes
1answer
159 views
Is there a way of using ctrl-r after typing part of command in bash?
In bash the Ctrl+r command is very useful, I type Ctrl+r whatever and it searchs my history for commands containing the word whatever. But if I type whatever and realize that I would like search that ...
