Feature request for easier keybinding setup

[ilanbiala]

I'm currently experimenting with Atom keymaps, and I noticed that creating a keybinding seems somewhat complicated. I'd like to suggest a feature to make it simpler for most keymaps people will want to change. Take this list of bindings for example:

If I'd like to change the keystroke for the first command (autocomplete-plus:confirm), I can just click on the <li>, and it will record my keystroke and override the package's default by inserting it into a keymap.cson. Something like this

would show up and I could record my new keybinding.

It's just a thought, but I think that if it were implemented, many people would appreciate it and use it most of the time when altering keymaps in Atom.

[gespinha]

This would help solve a lot of keybinding issues I've read over the discussions pages. At least, temporarily ;)

[ilanbiala]

@izuzak do you know if this would be accepted as a part of the core settings-view package? I'm interested in making this happen if it's something you guys are interested in adding to Atom config.

[kevinsawicki]

do you know if this would be accepted as a part of the core settings-view package?

Definitely 👍

[gespinha]

@ilanbiala Just to add to your main idea at the top: there should always be a button that would restore the defaults.

[ilanbiala]

@gespinha yeah that would be nice. Should be somewhat easy too, considering package developers specify the default shortcuts.

@kevinsawicki is the proposed implementation as it stands now what you guys are interested in, or a different implementation of the same idea?

[kevinsawicki]

is the proposed implementation as it stands now what you guys are interested in

Yeah, having the keybindings be editable, and allowing you to press the keybinding you want to change it to, and then it writing that out to your ~/.atom/keymap.cson file sounds good to me.

[ilanbiala]

Alright, I'll see what I can put together.

[kevinsawicki]

Great, thanks!

[gespinha]

@ilanbiala Once you start working on this please post here the link to the repo, I'll gladly help you test this!

[ilanbiala]

@gespinha @kevinsawicki I'm actually a little too busy right now to work on this. I just wanted to let anyone know that they shouldn't hold back if they'd like to put together an implementation.

[ilanbiala]

Has anyone started working on this?

[thedaniel]

No, not yet.

[ilanbiala]

I put together a small POC for recording keybindings. @thedaniel @kevinsawicki in what formatting are keybindings stored?