[Users] Keyboard shortcuts

[Leon Fisk]

On Fri, 21 Feb 2014 08:05:53 +0000
senex at drofle.co.uk wrote:

>On 20/02/14 20:09, Leon Fisk wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 18:52:33 +0000
>> Neil <senex at drofle.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>> Well,  I have checked and it appears that it does not warn you. This is
>>> a bit worrying. It could mean that I have removed a short-cut from
>>> elsewhere without realising it. I must be very careful to choose any
>>> new short-cut key combinations that are unlikely to be in use already.
>>>
>>> Neil
>>
>> I usually just check the menurc file first for any shortcuts in use:
>>
>> ~/.claws-mail/menurc
>>
>> It would be wise to make a backup of that file too. I've lost all my
>> shortcuts before by making a mistake, bad timing...
>>
>> Make any direct edits to that file while claws isn't in use.
>>
>The problem is that the file is so long and not in any order that I can 
>see. I could indeed try to make sure that a 'new' shortcut was not 
>already in use, but I think I could easily miss it.

Open it in your favorite text editor and then use its search function.
A typical line looks like this:

; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Menu/Message/Forward" "<Control><Alt>f")

This is a default value, you would have to remove the leading ";" and
also change the final quoted portion to something new. 

Now if I wanted to make a new short cut for something that used "f"
somehow, I would search on 'f")' and see what comes up. You should only
get a few hits. For instance, I get three using my example.

I agree, there isn't much of an order to that file :)

-- 
Leon
Claws 3.9.3, Ubuntu Karmic-Lucid