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Diffstat (limited to 'qutebrowser/config/configdata.yml')
| -rw-r--r-- | qutebrowser/config/configdata.yml | 13 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/qutebrowser/config/configdata.yml b/qutebrowser/config/configdata.yml index 22a4b2151..2e0f409ee 100644 --- a/qutebrowser/config/configdata.yml +++ b/qutebrowser/config/configdata.yml @@ -3232,13 +3232,20 @@ bindings.key_mappings: keytype: Key valtype: Key desc: >- - This setting can be used to map keys to other keys. + Map keys to other keys, so that they are equivalent in all modes. When the key used as dictionary-key is pressed, the binding for the key used as dictionary-value is invoked instead. - This is useful for global remappings of keys, for example to map Ctrl-[ to - Escape. + This is useful for global remappings of keys, for example to map <Ctrl-[> to + <Escape>. + + NOTE: This should only be used if two keys should always be equivalent, i.e. for + things like <Enter> (keypad) and <Return> (non-keypad). For normal command bindings, + qutebrowser works differently to vim: You always bind keys to commands, usually via + `:bind` or `config.bind()`. Instead of using this setting, consider finding the + command a key is bound to (e.g. via `:bind gg`) and then binding the same command to + the desired key. Note that when a key is bound (via `bindings.default` or `bindings.commands`), the mapping is ignored. |