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Is it possible to change shortcuts in Bluefish?

There is an old guide at http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/manual/ch08.html, but the information there doesn't seem applicable to version 2.0.

Modifying menudump in Bluefish folder doesn't help either.

I'm using version 2.2.4.1

Thank you in advance.

take2
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It hasn't changed.

  1. Highlight the menu with the shortcut.
  2. Push the backspace key.
  3. Press a new key combination.

If you want to changes to be permanent (and not only for the session) Edit > Save shortcut keys.

nomnex
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bluefish 2.2.12 (on KDE/Plasma)

as OP wrote: no menu entry (it's in the settings dialog) pressing shortcuts when menu ishighlighted does nothing, and BACKSPACE does nothing.

however, modifying ~/.bluefish/menudump does work, under these conditions:

  1. must restart bluefish after changes
  2. remove the ; in front of edited line. otherwise ; means line is commented out, and has no effect. (it's an archaeological remnant)
  3. there's no collision test: before entering a shortcut, make sure it's not assigned elsewhere in the file.

Cool and sexy it is not.

Also note: ctrl key here is:

I assume the "backspace-highligh" trick (which is also archaeological remnant) works in certain Gnome environmnet, but not in others. It's extremely error prone, bad UI/UX, shitty way to assign shortcuts, though, and I wouldn't do it even if it was working in my environment.

Berry Tsakala
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