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Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers
https://sioyek.info/
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Override default key bindings, not add to them #1221

Open nzeh opened 2 days ago

nzeh commented 2 days ago

I'm really liking sioyek. What I'm trying to do now is to add completely custom keybindings that override the default ones. It seems to me that the bindings in keys_user only add to the existing ones. Is there a way to replace existing ones?

I have a partial answer, but it's not good enough for what I'm trying to do: If I want to rebind key to a new command, all I have to do is add a line

to my config. Here is where it gets weird: In the default config 'v' stands for visual select. I am trying to make this a prefix to mean "View something". Like "View portal window", "View preview", ... I want to have bindings like 'vp', 'v', ... for them, in the same spirit as 'gg', ... If I just add bindings for 'vp', ..., then they never get executed because the moment I press 'v', it gets interpreted as "enter visual select mode", not as a prefix. I tried to first unbind 'v' using 'noop v'. This works to no longer trigger select mode, but it still doesn't allow me to use 'v' as a prefix key. I guess it is now explicitly bound to 'noop', which does nothing.

Is there currently a way to achieve what I want? If not, can a future version include some mechanism to delete existing bindings? This would be awesome.

ahrm commented 2 days ago

I think this is already fixed in the development branch.

nzeh commented 2 days ago

Ah ok. Thanks. I'll have to install that one then. Any prediction when this will become stable?

ahrm commented 2 days ago

Unfortunately no.

nzeh commented 2 days ago

That's fine. Thanks for sharing sioyek with the world.