Store shortcuts in a dedicated file instead of in Everything.ini

[Mike2000]

With shortcut keys stored in a dedicated file, e. g. "shortcuts.ini", sharing shortcuts between different machines would be a lot easier.

[void]

Keyboard shortcuts will always be stored in the Everything.ini
I have put on my TODO list to add a virtual keyboard setting to make it really easy to transfer keyboard shortcuts.

Thank you for the suggestion.

I have plans to rewrite the Tools -> Options -> Keyboard page for a future version of Everything.
I will make it easier to reset individual commands, import and export settings and see what custom keyboard shortcuts have been set.

[therube]

Can't that be done with User.ini ?

[void]

Yes.

Create a User.ini in %APPDATA%\Everything

Add a [Everything] section and add your keyboard shortcuts.

For example:

User.ini

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[Everything]
show_window_key=379

You can find your existing keyboard shortcuts in your %APPDATA%\Everything\Everything.ini
The first keyboard shortcut setting is:

file_new_window_keys

The downside with a User.ini is it will reset the defined keyboard shortcuts each time you restart Everything.

[Mike2000]

Keyboard shortcuts will always be stored in the Everything.ini

Thanks for the fast reply. What do you think about giving the ini file a little more structure? With that I mean grouping settings of the same kind in blocks. Something like:

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 ;[shortcuts_begin]
....
 ;[shortcuts_end]

Then one could interact with the ini file in a more robust way. I am thinking about using powershell to extract or inject all contents within these blocks. So even if the contents change from Everything version to version, the same PS script would be usable if you would only use it to exchange data among ini file of the same version.

[void]

Structure would be great, but hard to add now..

I will consider comments to breakup sections.
(something that will not break the existing ini files)
Thank you for the suggestion.

All keyboard shortcuts end with

_keys

[therube]

Structure.
Kind of my thought too, viewtopic.php?p=76554#p76554.

(Nice, perhaps, but not necessary.)