FAYT quick keys: allow two-letter sequences

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It's much easier to remember (and also faster to type) that

  • ,t is Tabs
  • ,s is Select
  • ,d is Folders (Dirs)
    than @, :, ]

But the Quick Keys config unfortunately only allows single key accelerators

(and , is a rare enough symbol to start file name quick find that it's ok to use a prefix for Find like f)

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You could set up lister hotkeys to do that.

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Thanks, that's what I do now (I've already asked before about the items that you can't rebind in the default interface like find)

However, discoverability of this solution is worse, which matters for some less frequently used ones that you might forget even with all the better mnemonics. You have nice easily findable "Quick Keys" group in the settings as well as a separate group in the keybindings, so it's much easier to check what all the keybinds for this feature is if it were supported there.

Or maybe "just" make the "Quick Keys" group editable in the keybindings settings? Currently they for some reason refer you back to the general preferences even though Keybindings is the proper section to change key bindings (then the preferences sections would be read-only and show whatever you set)

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It's a good idea, I'll put this on the list for after release.

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We've implemented this for the next update.

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Nice, but they conflict with the regular keybinds. If I have some keys , k and add ,t for tabs, the ,t never fires since, I guess, the keybindings systems are different?
I get a continuation prompt in the corner waiting for the second key, but that system only accepts k as bound in the regular keybindings, not t bound in the quick keys text box

Although, interestingly enough, if binding the same ,k they do show up as conflicting in the keybinding interface

I think this is the reason, the new mode mode isn't activated:

FAYT in the new "mode" mode, which shows a popup list of all modes that match the prefix typed so far

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Hotkeys will override Quick Keys, you'd need to pick one or the other.

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Can I enable the "mode" mode via a regular shortcut like cli QuickModeMode as the new cheatsheet could be useful for less frequently used commands?

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By the way, for some reason I get these conflict messages for empty quick key commands. If I enter some key, save it, delete the key, save it again, these disappear, but then after Opus restart they appear again

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