Launching bash script with a keybinding

[fjvico]

Hi! Anyone here could tell me how to include a line in keybindings.conf so as to run a bash script when a key is pressed? Say that /.local/bin/toggle must be launched when Tab is pressed.
Not really an issue, the issue is in fact that there's little information on how to do this.

[elextr]

Well you could try defining one of the custom commands to run your script, and defining Tab as the shortcut, but I suspect Tab is a little too overloaded, its used of a number of things and is context sensitive.

[fjvico]

@elextr Could you provide a link to how these commands are defined? Haven't deal with that before and the handbook doesn't seem to make it clear.

[elextr]

"custom commands" and the next section "context actions" depending if you want to replace the input with the output or not.

[fjvico]

@elextr done, but there's a problem with this solution: these custom commands are intended to replace selected text or the current line with the output of the command, so a part of the actual document vanishes after executing it with the assigned shortcut. I tried to add an 'echo $1' to the bash script that is executed, but it doesn't work. Any suggestion to allow a normal execution of the external command without altering the original text document?

[elextr]

The context action does not modify the selection AFAIK.

[fjvico]

@elextr That should work. Any idea about how to keybind to a context command?
An entry like:
custom_commands=/mypath/mycommand;
will do it for a custom command, but what is the prefix for context commands?

[elextr]

The section of the manual I linked above refers.

[fjvico]

Problem is, as I can see while it runs, that you need to select or the cursor sit on a word to make it work, it won't work on empty lines.

[fjvico]

@elextr Adding a 'cat "$1"' to the script and calling the custom command seems to do the job. Only thing is that it selects the current line, what is not a desired effect.

[elextr]

Yes, the command works on the selection, it just helpfully selects the current line if nothing is selected.

[codebrainz]

This seems basically solved, feel free to re-open.