Alter default key-bindings

[Nicholas-Autio-Mitchell]

Thanks for this wonderfully useful tool!

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Some of the essential key-bindings (such as Contol-d to delete a job/pod) conflict with those used in my terminal/TMUX environment, meaning I have to always perform those in another terminal using e.g. kubectl delete pods ....

Describe the solution you'd like A way to change the default key-bindings. Looking in the documentation and skimming the source code, I haven't seen a place to do this myself. I am not talking about the hotkeys option; as far as I can tell, they are a separate feature that also shouldn't contain any of the basic key-bindings.

Describe alternatives you've considered Another YAML file where all keybindings are stored and can be overridden. I am not sure how they are currently implemented, and am not fussy about how a solution may work.

Additional context

[victorboissiere]

I have the same issue and I have to browse the code to override the default command: https://github.com/derailed/k9s/search?q=NewKeyAction&unscoped_q=NewKeyAction

what could be great is to generated a default hotkeys.yml so we can easily override and add custom commands

[arash-bizcover]

yes and everytime by default I press q

I'm dying to put q instead of Esc

[dagadbm]

i cant even use the tool because i use tmux ctrl-a as leader..

[milj]

It would be great, for example to be able to use the insert key instead of space key to select items (as in mc).

[TLINDEN]

It is possible to define custom key bindings in hotkey.yml. Eg:

hotKey:
  q:
    shortCut:    q
    description: exit
    command:     quit

  Delete:
    shortCut:    Delete
    description: Delete resource
    command:     delete

The first one works like a charm, but I get an error Ruroh? 'delete' command not found with the other.

It's also not possible to overwrite existing key bindings that way.

[dudicoco]

@derailed are there any plans on implementing this?

[darthbanana13]

I found a partial workaround for people that have conflicting bindings with other applicaitons like tmux or that simply would like to use CTRL+Z to minimize K9s. Just edit a defintion with your editor, and then the k9s hotkeys are inactive. When you're done simply exit the editor without saving. It's not the best workaround, I admit.

[matthewgrossman]

Has anyone been successful in binding a different key to back? I have <esc> already mapped in my terminal, so I'd rather have something like q be back.

I have a hotkeys.yml like:

hotKey:
  q:
    shortCut: q
    description: Go back
    command: Back

but I get a "Ruroh?" as well for this, presumably because Back is not a valid command.