Multi-key sequences

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I have a parent folder (Clients) with sub-folders (ClientX, where X is an integer).

Clients

  • Client1
  • Client2
  • Client3
  • ...

I have a hotkey (Ctrl-Alt-C) for the parent folder and I would like to make multi-key sequences for some of the child folders (e.g., Ctrl-Alt-C, 1 .... Ctrl-Alt-C, 2 ..... Ctrl-Alt-C, 3 .... etc.). I cannot use the child folder multi-key sequences unless I remove the hotkey associated with the parent folder. Was this done by design? Are there any workarounds? I only want to make multi-key sequences for some of my clients, not all. So I would prefer to have the hotkey for parent and a few multi-key sequences for some of my clients.

-Noraye

2

Maybe you could use Ctrl-Alt-C,0 for the parent?

Regards, AB

3

I used numbers in my example, but the folders are actual client names (letters). The parent folder is really called 'Clients', but there are subfolders with the names of each client. Making this more abstract, I guess where I'm going with this is ...

If I plan to assign multi-key sequences to favorites, by design, was it intended that I would have to forgo assigning the first hotkey (Ctrl-Alt-C) to anything?

Scenario 1) First hotkey in sequence IS NOT assigned to anything.
Ctrl-Alt-C ---> Not assigned to anything
Ctrl-Alt-C,A ---> Works
Ctrl-Alt-C,B ---> Works
Ctrl-Alt-C,C ---> Works
Ctrl-Alt-C,D ---> Works
..... and etc.

Scenario 2) First hotkey in sequence IS assigned to something
Ctrl-Alt-C ---> Assigned, and works as expected
Ctrl-Alt-C,A ---> Will not work
Ctrl-Alt-C,B ---> Will not work
Ctrl-Alt-C,C ---> Will not work
Ctrl-Alt-C,D ---> Will not work
..... and etc.

4

[quote="noraye"]Scenario 2) First hotkey in sequence IS assigned to something
Ctrl-Alt-C ---> Assigned, and works as expected
Ctrl-Alt-C,A ---> Will not work
Ctrl-Alt-C,B ---> Will not work[/quote]

If the first combination does something already (Ctr-Alt-C), how is the programm supposed to know, that you want to enter some more characters (Ctrl-Alt-C,A ...)? It is already
a complete hotkey, which works immediately, so you have to change your "base" combination (Ctrl-Alt-C) to something like Ctrl-Alt-C,1 or similar, to make it work.