marvinkreis/rofi-file-browser-extended

Feature request: Separate hidden file shortkeys

Georacer opened this issue · 4 comments

Georacer commented

I'd like to add file_browser plugin to the rest of the modi of my regular rofi launch command.
But as soon as I get to this modi, it captures shift+left/right to show/hide hidden files and can't navigate to other modi anymore.

Could a separate shortkey for hidden files be added (e.g. shift+up/down)?

marvinkreis commented

Hi, thanks for the suggestion.

Unfortunately I can only use keybindings defined by rofi (which is why I was using the mode-switch keybindings). I'll change it to Alt+1, which is one of the keybindings that rofi defines for custom actions.

EDIT: Nevermind, Alt+1 is also used for mode-switching, although rofi -show keys says it's for custom actions. I could change it to Alt+0 and hope no one will use it with 10 active modes. Any other ideas?

marvinkreis commented

Some other options:

  1. Use Ctrl+Enter to toggle hidden files, but this only works the input field is empty
  2. Use Shift+Right to enable hidden files, but switch to the next mode if hidden files are already enabled (and the other way around for Shift+Left)

I think the most sensible way is to implement both, use (1) as default, and add a command line option to use (2).

Georacer commented
Georacer commented

I like the new API. I disabled hidden files by default and toggling them with ctrl+space is straightforward.

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