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[Steve Litt]

On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:14:04 -0500
Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 18:52:33 +0000
> Neil <senex at drofle.co.uk> wrote:

> Yes. *And*, grepping menurc does little good, because it won't
> reliably show you the default keybindings.
> 
> Paul, is there a way to get Claws or something else to dump the key
> bindings that actually exist, whether they exist by default or by user
> adjustment?

I think I found the answer to this question...

1) Close all instances of Claws-Mail
2) rename menurc backup_menurc
3) Run and exit from claws-mail
4) The newly made claws-mail (presumably) has all the defaults listed,
   but commented out.

cat backup-menurc | grep -v "^\s*;" > my_changes_to_menurc

cat menurc my_changes_to_menurc |
program_moves_hotkey_to_front_then_sorts_then_counts

That last program is just a simple filter that puts the hotkey at the
start of the line, then sorts the whole bunch, then counts. Probably a
fairly simple Python program. If you wanted to make an "m" hotkey,
you'd just grep the output for "^\"m\"" to see whether it's already
used. If you wanted to find already duplicate hotkeys, you could have
that pop out on stderr.

The last step, of course, would be to rename menurc to
default_menurc, and rename backup_menurc to menurc.

If several people want this to happen, I'll write the program to do it.

SteveT

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