Feature Request: Support for key chords (for extending the currently available keyboard keys)

[Ralf_Reddings]

Currently Everything allows you to assign Menu commands, Bookmarks, Filters etc etc to only standard keyboard shortcuts such as

f1

or

ctrl+alt+f1

. I think, for some of us, it will be common to run out of keyboard keys that we can assign commands to.

In my case, I try to avoid using two modifier layers such as

ctrl+alt+<key>

as I try to avoid straining my hand, which suffers from carpal tunnel, and certainly avoid the

ctrl+shift+alt+<key>

layer, for the same reason.

For this reason, I would like to ask, if we can get support for key chords in Everything? So, then it becomes possible to have key combinations such as

f1+a

,

f1+b

,

f1+c

...

f1+shift+a

etc etc.

Programmes like VsCode have key chords, simply due to the numerous commands the user is allowed to assign to a shortcut. On VsCode's Keyboard rules pages they describe key chords as:

>Chords (two separate keypress actions) are described by separating the two keypresses with a space. For example,

Ctrl+K Ctrl+C

.

Cheers!

[void]

I will consider keyboard chords.

Thank you for the suggestion.



For now, please consider Autohotkey and either:

call Everything.exe with -command <id>

-or-

Send your Everything window a WM_COMMAND:
SendMessage, 0x111, <command-id>,,, ahk_class EVERYTHING



-command <id>
Command IDs

[Ralf_Reddings]

Thats great to hear, I will look into these alternatives that you suggested as well, thanks.