@mkupper said in Npp Shortcut mapper: 2 different sub-dialogs or forms:
My own focus for a project such as the one you are proposing would be to first fully understand why there is a one-to-one restriction for shortcuts to the Notepad++ actions.
My working assumption has always been that the developer added the multi-shortcut feature for Scintilla commands because it was required so that it could use DOS-style (Ctrl+INS/Shift+DEL/Shift+INS) and Windows-style (Ctrl+C/Ctrl+X/Ctrl+V) shortcuts for the same commands, but he never saw a good reason for the extra complication of having multiple shortcuts on any Notepad++-specific actions. (With the magic-copy logic now existing, those three special exceptions have been given two entries in the Main shortcut tab, rather than being part of the Scintilla tab, which I find somewhat amusing, and at least one user has complained about.)
There is an existing issue from 2018, requesting multiple shortcuts allowable for any action – but there was never any reply by the developer (yea or nay), so it sounds like it’s “uninteresting” to him, so he leaves it in the limbo state – in theory, someone interested could try to make a PR to that request, but he would be within his rights to reject it, and thus the contributor would have wasted his time; most of the regular contributors don’t bother implementing old requests like that until and unless they are certain that the developer would actually approve it.
@wonkawilly,
Evaluate this proposal to see if it is worthy to be sent to the Npp developers team on github
Regarding your “spiffy new streamlined shortcut mapper”, I have a feeling that any PR submitted for such a request would be rejected out-of-hand as being too risky – so I cannot imagine any of the regular contributors trying to impliment it, and I would be very surprised if the developer implemented it himself if a random user (or any of us regulars) suggested it, even if a hypothetical issue did get dozens of "me too"s and upvotes.
As such, and because while it’s not the best possible interface, it works sufficiently for my needs and doesn’t annoy me, so I’m not interested enough to create an issue about it.