Cannot use menu key or modifier keys as shortcuts

[jimbo1qaz]

I want to use the menu key or the alt key to activate the menu. Unfortunately, your software does not support that. This is very inconvenient, as I can't remember all your bizarre shortcuts.

[Maximus5]

You must not remember shortcuts. You can choose your own!
BTW, they are not bizarre.
And what menu do you want to show?

[jimbo1qaz]

ConEmu menu. (hamburger/google-chrome menu)
When I press Alt or Menu, it resets to "None".
When I keep the key as None but add an Alt modifier, it saves as None still.

On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 11:33 PM, Maximus5 notifications@github.com wrote:

You must not remember shortcuts. You can choose your own!
BTW, they are not bizarre.
And what menu do you want to show?

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[Maximus5]

No way. Simple keypresses are passed to console unmodified.
You may set Alt+Space - general Windows hotkey, if you can't remember a hotkey with Win.
SystemMenu can be accessed by many ways
http://conemu.github.io/en/SystemMenu.html

[jimbo1qaz]

"Simple keypresses passed through unmodified" Then why can I assign to
non-modifier keys and it eats them completely? Is it really that difficult
to assign to the menu or alt keys, both of which are natural and intuitive
menu keys?

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 12:46 AM, Maximus5 notifications@github.com wrote:

No way. Simple keypresses are passed to console unmodified.
You may set Alt+Space - general Windows hotkey, if you can't remember a
hotkey with Win.
SystemMenu can be accessed by many ways
http://conemu.github.io/en/SystemMenu.html

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[Maximus5]

Then why can I assign to non-modifier keys
and it eats them completely?
Assign what exactly? Where? Who eats?
assign to the menu or alt keys, both of which
are natural and intuitive menu keys?
ConEmu is terminal, it is not a Notepad, Word or any other standalone GUI application.
It does not and must not eat keys.
It redirect keypresses into console applications input queue.
Do you expect mstsc.exe to eat Alt key to show menu? I believe not. That will be weird behavior. Same with ConEmu.

[jimbo1qaz]

I just assigned "menu" to "equals" key without modifiers. That is worse
than using alt key by itself. Believe it or not, you ARE eating keys.

You are deliberately excluding important useful functionality, just because
you don't like the idea of mapping modifier keys to actions.

I'll make a fork and fix it for myself, if I have time.

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Maximus5 notifications@github.com wrote:

Then why can I assign to non-modifier keys
and it eats them completely?
Assign what exactly? Where? Who eats?
assign to the menu or alt keys, both of which
are natural and intuitive menu keys?
ConEmu is terminal, it is not a Notepad, Word or any other standalone GUI
application.
It does not and must not eat keys.
It redirect keypresses into console applications input queue.
Do you expect mstsc.exe to eat Alt key to show menu? I believe not. That
will be weird behavior. Same with ConEmu.

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[Maximus5]

You have not shown an example.

[jimbo1qaz]

I just told you: I can assign any shortcut to any button without modifiers,
making that key wholly unusable.

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Maximus5 notifications@github.com wrote:

You have not shown an example.

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[Maximus5]

That is user choice.

[jimbo1qaz]

And I should have the choice to map any key however I want, without you
preventing me from mapping modifier keys to the menu.

Especially the menu key is not used in any of the terminal programs I know.
It would be the perfect menu key, except you won't allow me to map it.

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Maximus5 notifications@github.com wrote:

That is user choice.

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[Maximus5]

BTW, Apps key is allowed now.

[jimbo1qaz]

That's good!

But why do you call it Apps key, rather than menu key?

On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Maximus5 notifications@github.com wrote:

BTW, Apps key is allowed now.

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[Maximus5]

VK_APPS
http://conemu.github.io/en/AppsKey.html