Re: Hot-keys

malcolm <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.devel.quanta.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thank you for the reply, Eric,

I have been fiddling around, and have just discovered what the <join 
lines> function does. :)

Thank you very much anyway,
Warmest Regards,
malcolm




Eric Laffoon wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 July 2008 5:33:08 am malcolm wrote:
>   
>> Hello, All,
>>
>> I'm wondering if it's possible to bind a series of key-strokes to a
>> hot-key. For example, i have some very large documents to re-format, and
>> the lines are very short, so to lengthen them i find it necessary to press
>> <end> <space> <del>, but it's easy to mis-stroke and run words together or
>> introduce unwanted double-spaces.
>>
>> Can anyone tell me if it is possible to do this, and maybe - if it is -
>> to give me some guidance?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Warmest Regards,
>> malcolm
>>
>>     
>
> Please see the docs regarding Actions. They enable you to create scripts and 
> bind a key. Now if you stop thinking in terms of keystrokes and think in 
> terms of what you want to do you could...
>
> - use sed to replace \n with a space in a selected block (in fact you could 
> even do this with the find and replace using regexp)
>
> - use DCOP to move the cursor
>
> This is really just some of the possiblities. You could create a script that 
> removes returns unless they are attached to tags for instance.
>
>
>

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