Re: [Denemo-devel] Emacs bindings (and midi input)

[Richard Shann]

On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 11:49 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> > Benjamin Summers
> > Mon, 10/06/2008 - 16:57
> > The main things that keep me from using Denemo are the lack of good
> > midi playback and the absence of support for input from a midi
> > keyboard. I read some files in the source code that seem to be related
> > to these, so maybe this is being worked on?
> I suspect a lot of the work was done, but it needs a developer to work
> on it right now.
> >  I am using the Windows build, by the way.
> > 
> > I would also like to be able to use Emacs style key bindings in
> > Denemo. As far as I can tell, bindings such as C-x C-s aren't
> > possible.
> It is possible with the latest versions. You need a simple script that
> is a command,  say (d-ControlX), that takes a keypress (actually at the
> moment we only have (d-GetChar), but that is easy to fix) and calls the
> action you want for the next keypress you make.
> Here is the outline of the script:
> 
> ;;;;;;;;;;;;;; emacs commands
> (define command (lambda ()
>             (d-getUserInput "Control-x" "Undefined combination." "OK")
>           ))
> (define response (string (d-GetChar)))
> (cond
>  ((equal? response "s") (set! command d-Save))
>  ((equal? response "k") (set! command d-Close))
> 
> )       
> (command)
> 
> This does Save in response to Control-X s and close for Control-X k
> It raises a couple of issues, 
>       The d-GetChar is returning a char not a string.
>         It should really be d-GetKeypress to return a string like
> "Control-S" etc.
I've created d-GetKeypress and put a simple ControlX command in the
actions/menus system.
Pushed to git.
Richard