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May 15, 2012
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Customize keyboard shortcuts

  • May 15, 2012
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Hi, is it possible to customize keyboard shortcuts in FM? I want to assign a keyboard shortcut for Paste Special > Text.

Is there any way I could do it?

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    Jeff_Coatsworth
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    May 15, 2012

    You know that you can change the default Paste command to do a Text paste by modifying your maker.ini file?

    Inspiring
    March 30, 2017

    No I sure did not!!!! Jeff - which of the 6,000 lines do I change?? I NEED TO DO THIS!!!!!

    Arnis Gubins
    Inspiring
    March 30, 2017

    Re-arrange this line so that "TEXT" comes first, e.g.

    ClipboardFormatsPriorities=TEXT, UNICODE TEXT, FILE, MIFW, MIF, RTF, OLE 2, META, EMF,  DIB, BMP

    david_artman_designs
    Participating Frequently
    May 15, 2012

    In the UNIX version, you could define a macro and bind a keyboard shortcut to it.

    In other versions, I'd suggest a third-party (probably system tray) app that does keyboard macros, and set it to fire the sequence:

    Alt+E, S, T, Enter

    or

    Ctrl+Shift+V, T, Enter

    Finally, I think if you did some digging, you could find out a way to add a new menu item with an associated accellerator key to fire the 'Paste as Text' (whatever it's actually called) event. Then, it would be only a couple of (Alt) keyboard strokes--almost as good. Unfortunately, I haven't messed with menu.cfg (in ../fminit/maker/) in years, and so I'd have to do some hunting to find all of the available commands.

    Sorry I can't be of more help;

    David