[crossfire] [PATCH 2/2] Character-specific keybinding files

[Mark Wedel]

On 11/ 2/13 04:31 PM, Arvid Brodin wrote:
> Today, keybindings are saved as ~/.crossfire/keys. That means you
> cannot have different key bindings for each character.
>
> This patch changes that so that keybindings are saved as
> ~/.crossfire/<character-name>.keys. So if your character is named
> Leopold, the keybindings are saved to ~/.crossfire/Leopold.keys.
>
> When play is entered with a character, the client tries to load
> keybindings in the following order:
>
> ~/.crossfire/<character-name>.keys
> ~/.crossfire/keys
> <client_libdir>/def_keys
>
> If none of the files are found, it instead uses the default built-
> in keybindings.

  Just a question - is there any way to set up 'global' keybindings (eg, those 
that apply to all characters)?

  From my reading above, which may not be correct, it suggests that once it 
finds a matching keys file, it won't go to the next one (so if you have a 
foobar.keys file, it will load that and won't load anything you have set up in 
keys).

  I'm not sure how prevalent it is, but I know for myself that I have some 
keybindings that would apply to all characters, and it would be a bit of a pain 
to re-enter them each time a new character is created (now I suppose this can be 
done as a manual process of having a template file that I manually copy over as 
I make new characters)

  That said, certainly have per character keys file is also a good thing, since 
a lot of things are per character.

  My only thought here is that it loads up ~/.crossfire/keys regardless, but 
values in <char name>.keys override any settings there, and in the bind window, 
have an option for the keybinding which is something like 'global (all 
character)' option.