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rpmohn / a4

dynamic terminal manager and multiplexer
https://a4term.com
MIT License
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Friendlier Modifers? #16

Open Sneethe opened 10 months ago

Sneethe commented 10 months ago

Is a modifier behavior that you would see on any wm possible within the confines of a terminal. This would mean that once your holding your modifier, multiple keyboard and or mouse actions are now possible and without having to press the modifier for each and every action. This would go a long for ease of use.

rpmohn commented 10 months ago

I would like to improve the ease of use. Can you give me an example of what you mean?

Sneethe commented 9 months ago

Sorry for the delay in replying. So with virtually every tiling window manager you generally have keybinds that can be held down to perform successive actions.
Currently in both dvtm and a4 (to the best of my knowledge) this isn't possible. To relate this to a4, if I wish to "Decrease the size of the zoom area" with 'Ctrl-a D'. Then the entire keybind has to be entered every time one wants to perform this action. This leads to a clunky user experience. It would be great to hold down "Ctrl-a" / "Ctrl-g" and then have subsequent keybinds be performed as expected. In the above scenario that would look like: 'Ctrl-a DDDDDD'. Currently to do this, your keystrokes would look like: 'Ctrl-a D' & 'Ctrl-a D' & 'Ctrl-a D' & 'Ctrl-a D' & 'Ctrl-a D' & 'Ctrl-a D'.

rpmohn commented 9 months ago

Ah, gotcha, that makes sense and would be useful! I will look into what can be done to support something like that.

This doesn't solve it, but for those specific actions I tested out using some non-modkey bindings for them, like what's used for the S-PageUp/Down scrollback actions. If they don't conflict with your terminal emulator them maybe this will be useful for you in the meantime? I hadn't considered this before and I will certainly be using it myself now! 

[KeyboardActions]
M-i = zoomnum +1
M-d = zoomnum -1
M-I = zoomsize +.05
M-D = zoomsize -.05
Sneethe commented 9 months ago

Yeah setting keybinds to a terminal multiplexer is tricky, as it can't conflict with either alt and ctrl (focused application) or meta (WM/DE) keybinds.