Re: [RP] newbie: bindings without prefix

[Shawn Betts]

twb <address@hidden> writes:

> Is it possible to bind keys without using *any* prefix?  I ideally
> want something like this:
> 
> <mod4>-k = delete
> <mod4>-e = exec emacs
> <mod4>-t = other
> ...
> 
> (without presssing C-t or something first).
> 
> It would also be nice to nest key bindings (like in Ion).  I worked
> out a generic, bastardized way to do this:
> 
> say you want to do this:
> <mod4>-d
>   {
>     d colon exec dillo 
>     s colon exec dillo google.com/search?q=
>     l colon exec dillo google.com/linux?q=
>     f colon exec dillo freshmeat.net/
>     ...
>   }
> 
> (<mod4>-d d begins dillo in RP's minibuffer, etc.)
> 
> 1) make <mod4>-d create each of the bindings inside it.
> 2) each of these bindings it creates unmaps all the created bindings,
>    then executes the `real' binding.
> 
> I think you'd do this in RP like so
> 
> bind H-d exec ratpoison -c "bind d exec ratpoison -c 'unbind d'; ratpoison -c 
> 'colon exec dillo'"
> 
> 
> It would be just as easy to do this with an external keybinder, but I
> can't find any that support nesting `normally'.
> 
> any ideas?

Hi!

If you browse the list archives you'll find some solutions to this. I
think what you should look at is keylauncher.

Shawn