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Feature Request: Support for key chords (for extending the currently available keyboard keys)

Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:37 am
by Ralf_Reddings
Currently Everything allows you to assign Menu commands, Bookmarks, Filters etc etc to only standard keyboard shortcuts such as
f1
or
ctrl+alt+f1
. I think, for some of us, it will be common to run out of keyboard keys that we can assign commands to.

In my case, I try to avoid using two modifier layers such as
ctrl+alt+<key>
as I try to avoid straining my hand, which suffers from carpal tunnel, and certainly avoid the
ctrl+shift+alt+<key>
layer, for the same reason.

For this reason, I would like to ask, if we can get support for key chords in Everything? So, then it becomes possible to have key combinations such as
f1+a
,
f1+b
,
f1+c
...
f1+shift+a
etc etc.

Programmes like VsCode have key chords, simply due to the numerous commands the user is allowed to assign to a shortcut. On VsCode's Keyboard rules pages they describe key chords as:
>Chords (two separate keypress actions) are described by separating the two keypresses with a space. For example,
Ctrl+K Ctrl+C
.
Cheers!

Re: Feature Request: Support for key chords (for extending the currently available keyboard keys)

Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2024 10:41 am
by void
I will consider keyboard chords.

Thank you for the suggestion.



For now, please consider Autohotkey and either:

call Everything.exe with -command <id>

-or-

Send your Everything window a WM_COMMAND:
SendMessage, 0x111, <command-id>,,, ahk_class EVERYTHING



-command <id>
Command IDs

Re: Feature Request: Support for key chords (for extending the currently available keyboard keys)

Posted: Thu May 02, 2024 2:04 pm
by Ralf_Reddings
Thats great to hear, I will look into these alternatives that you suggested as well, thanks.