Re: gEDA-user: Wish list for gschem

[Stuart Brorson <sdb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> I'd like to see gschem's hot-keys/keyboard-shortcuts be user changeable
>>> without recompiling by something like pcb's pcb-menu.res file.
>>
>> They are. Look in system-gschemrc. All that's required after editing is a
>> restart of gschem.
>
> It's perfectly functional but has a problem - there is no way (or I
> wasn't able to find one) to register/unregister the shortcuts "table".
> This forces the user to modify the system-level configuration file,
> which is going to be overwritten at the next update of gschem.
>
> Such mechanism would also allow for distributing gEDA with multiple
> shortcuts definitions. The user could then choose shortcuts that
> emulate his/her favorite EDA software.

Ummmm..... try putting a .gschemrc in your local $HOME/.gEDA directory, and
then putting your favorite key bindings in there.

You can also put a project-specific .gschemrc in your project
directory (the one where you run the software).

This is covered in more detail on the wiki:

http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:usage#what_are_the_names_and_locations_of_the_rc_files_used_with_geda_gaf_applications

Stuart


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