[Ardour-Users] shortcut cheatsheet!

[Paul Davis]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 2:15 PM, plutek <plutek at infinity.net> wrote:
> Excerpts from Klaumi Klingsporn's message of Mon Sep 20 13:41:57 -0400 2010:
>> Am / On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:03:52 +0300
>> schrieb / wrote ". m u r m e r ." <murmer at murmerings.com>:
>>
>> > two questions about the keybindings window:
>> >
>> > 1) is it searchable? it's a long list of actions to dig through when
>> > looking for something specific if you're not sure how it is described.
>>
>> the keybindings are stored in your home-dirctory in
>> ~/.ardour2/ardour.bindings. It's a text-file and at least there you can
>> easily search with your favourite text-editor ;-)
>
> and, while we're at it:
>
> afaik the only way to determine if a keystroke you wish to use is already assigned to something else is also to search ardour.bindings in your favourite editor. correct?

that's likely to be the fastest. the keybinding dialog can be checked
too, but its slower, certainly, i would basically assume that *all*
keystrokes are taken and that by using one, you are stealing it from
an existing binding. this is not absolutely true, but its not far from
it.