[Pan-users] Re: Re: Feature Request: Plonk Author in the message pane context menu

[Duncan]

Dave Chand posted <address@hidden>,
excerpted below,  on Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:58:36 -0500:

> I would love to use hotkeys for that functionality, the problem is I 
> don't know how to assign them.

Ahh... Try hovering your mouse over the item you want to assign the
hotkey to on the menu, then hitting the hotkey you want to assign.  For
most things that will work, altho if the key is already used as a menu
accelerator key for that menu, it will activate that instead of assigning
the key, so sometimes you can't use just letters (when assigned that way)
and have to use control or something with it.  Used in this way, the
delete key will delete the current assignment so it can be assigned
elsewhere, not assign the delete key to that action.

For single-key hotkeys, where there's already a menu accelerator using the
key, so you can't assign it directly, and for fancy stuff, you can try
editing the ./pan/data/accels.txt file directly.  Note that PAN will
scramble the order of the entries, so it's no use sorting them unless you
want to keep a backup file with the sorted entries and copy it to the
working file after making your desired changes.  Use your favorite text
editor's search ability to find the menu entry you want.  All the default
entries are commented out, so if you change any, uncomment it.  You may
also want to do a search on the hotkey in question to make sure it isn't
used elsewhere, as PAN won't crash with conflicting entries, but you just
don't know which one it'll activate.

...  All that's with a decently recent PAN and GTK+.  Early GTK+ 2
versions had to be accelerator assignment unlocked first.  I've forgotten
the details but posted them several times; look a year to two years ago. 
IIRC, PAN 0.12, the early PAN for GTK2+ versions, didn't support hotkey
remapping either, altho earlier PAN 0.11 for Gnome 1 had supported it.
Personally, it's a feature I found hard to live without, back during the
early GTK+ 2 days, so I'm glad it was reintroduced.

I think I read that the MSWormOS version uses a similar accels.txt file
in PAN's program dir.

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