non-recursive mappings ?

[adityadesaha]

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?

[BanchouBoo]

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.

[adityadesaha]

This works, thanks!

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On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 3:17 PM Boo ***@***.***> wrote: 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. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#2 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AOACPEOWAPJCKX2OTXHACK3X5WY3ZAVCNFSM6AAAAAA5S6VAXCVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMYTONBXGQ4TGMJRGY> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>