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What hotkey(s) do *you* use to trigger FARR?
gogogadgetscott:
Win+Z
jeme:
Maybe a little misplaced, but I thought it's better than posting a whole new topic:
I'm running more and more into problems because I've too many applications where I want to use shortcuts (global or local ones) and the usual Windows scheme "Modifier + one letter" just runs out of reasonable (memorizable) possibilities (btw., I love the system based on key sequences starting with ESC used in FrameMaker...). Therefore I wonder, whether it would be a big deal to extend this concept by (internally) introducing a two-stage trigger concept. I take FARR's hotkey option as an example to make clear what I mean:
* [1] Right now, there are the four checkboxes for the modifier keys (Shift, Ctrl, Alt, Win), plus the selection box for the actual character key.
* [2] For the two-stage trigger, I'd add another entry field that allows the user to specify some further characters or even a string.
* [3] The key combination in [1] is the global Windows hotkey and triggers FARR as usual; FARR does not start any action yet though (unless the entry field in [2] is empty), but waits for a string to be entered. As soon as a string specified in any hotkey is matched, the assigned action is triggered. In case that any other string is entered, FARR presents a corresponding message after a configurable time (e.g. 1000 ms); alternatively, any (maybe configurable) default action could be started that even might take the entered string as part of the input.
Another idea crossed my mind today, which might also be a very useful option under certain circumstance: If FARR was able to understand the context where it has been called (e.g. based on the window title of the calling application), the same trigger hotkey could end up in different actions matching the given context, and a single hotkey could fit many slightly different needs.
The idea was actually triggered by the thought that I'd like to search a specific web page for a code reference matching e.g. a function call highlighted in my text editor (jEdit in this case). Since different languages are covered by different web pages, I'd have to introduce a different hotkey for each of my languages used (e.g. perl, html, css, xslt). However, since the editor usually specifies the current file name in the window title, FARR could understand from the window title (and the file extension there, matched via a regex), which file type I'm currently working on, and could choose the appropriate web search to be applied.
This way, I'd just have to introduce (and memorize!) a single hotkey for the function "Get matching code reference", no matter which programming language or even application I'm working with (well, unless I let FARR switch to different actions depending on the application name specified in the window title, too, of course :D).
PS: I'm still experimenting with my hotkeys. Since I noticed that ALT+Space (or was it Ctrl+Shift+Space?) in MS Word suddenly did no longer apply the "Reset character style" option, but started FARR instead, I disabled this option in FARR and tend to use the Break key instead. Also I assigned Win+"<" and Win+Shift"<" (German keyboard) for my two most-used FARR applications, two specific web searches.
pmoore:
Win+S
Pause clashes with some of my programs that use Pause to... well, pause. And Alt-space is the system menu.
Not sure why I chose Win+S, just an unused Win-key combination I could hit with one hand.
alijan:
Pause/break is too far away! Alt or Ctl + space interferes with other things.
I use alt+f2. Incidentally this is also the short-cut for the gnome launcher so it's great to have the same shortcut for both my operating systems. It would be great to have farr run on linux though! ;)
Gian.Krl0:
Alt+Space because ergonomics and i used to hit this with Gnome-Do
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