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Make modifiers custimizeable #502
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What happened to this issue? I don't see any issues in the plugins repo. I only see keybinds in Usage | Albert, which aren't customizable. In particular I'd want to use different |
If you're interested, I added the ones I need in feat: add Vim keybinds to go page up/down, delete backwards · stevenxxiu/albert_plugins@a2b606e. |
Thanks for the note! But I'm currently using rofi and dmenu as launcher. |
Summary
When I want to select an alternative action, I hold the alt key and press up/down and then enter.
To press up/down, I have to move my right hand (on a traditional keyboard) or (with Neo keyboard layout) press a second modifier key plus the direction key. This is not optimal yet.
Suggestion:
Make
j and k are the down/up arrow keys in Vim, pagers like less, Google Calendar, and many other programs. n and p (for next and previous) are also used as shortcuts in many programs.
Would you accept a PR for this?
It would be great to just press alt-{j,j,enter}.
Notes
I also thought about different solutions that don't require to hold the alt key or press the arrow keys. But I came to the result, that it's already pretty good as it is. alt is a nice mnemonic for "alternative action".
Everything else I can think of is probably less intuitive.
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