[crossfire] [RFC 2/3] Misc keybinding fixes and changes

[Kevin Zheng]

Hi there,

On 10/30/2013 20:06, Arvid Brodin wrote:
> As a new player, I found this to be a usability problem. Everyone knows what
> the Control key is, but what's the Run key? I think the reason Shift and Ctrl
> were called Fire and Run is that it is possible to rebind them - i.e. if you 
> want some other key to act as the Run modifier, you could
> 
> 'bind runkey1

I wasn't aware that this "feature" even existed. If it isn't present in
the JXClient, I'd say it's safe to take it out.

> - and press a key to act as the Run modifier. (Actually I'm not even sure this
> worked; I never tried it - and I'm pretty sure it requires the run_on state to 
> be kept in the server, since key repeats won't work if you bind Run to, say, 
> 'r', and press that after the direction key... hmm. So it might be in the way
> of better handling of repeating keys.)

Probably not, repeating keys should be handled more elegantly.

> I realize this change might not be liked by everyone, so feel free to shout out
> in that case (RFC = Request For Comments). But it did seem like a pretty unique
> and not very well advertised feature, so I chanced that it could be removed.

You have my vote to take it out. Input from others would be helpful.

Thanks,
Kevin Zheng