non-recursive mappings ?
adityadesaha opened this issue · comments
First of all, I do appreciate the work you've put in for lucky, I believe it has great potential.
I would like to map ctrl+w to ctrl+Backspace in Firefox (which I can do right now), but I would like to map ctrl+x to ctrl+w in Firefox, in order to close the current tab. This I cannot do right now, since If I'm doing lucky.cmd('xdotool', 'key', '--clearmodifiers', 'ctrl+w'), then lucky intercepts that, and I'm stuck in an infinite loop. How can I get out of it?
Sending keystrokes like this is something I'd eventually like to support directly in lucky which would hopefully be done in a way that would circumvent these issues entirely, but for now there should still be a way to work around it using filters. For example:
local firefox_ctrl_x = false
lucky.bind('ctrl+x', {
filter = function(wid)
return lucky.get_class(wid) == "firefox"
end,
press = function()
firefox_ctrl_x = true
lucky.cmd('xdotool', 'key', '--clearmodifiers', 'ctrl+w')
end
})
lucky.bind('ctrl+w', {
filter = function(wid)
if firefox_ctrl_x then
firefox_ctrl_x = false
return false
end
return lucky.get_class(wid) == "firefox"
end,
press = function()
lucky.cmd('xdotool', 'key', '--clearmodifiers', 'ctrl+Backspace')
end
})If you run into any issues with this approach let me know, I haven't tested this example myself.