[MlMt] mailmate Digest, Vol 28, Issue 6

[Bruce Steinberg]

> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 17:56:03 +0200
> From: "Benny Kj?r Nielsen" <mailinglist at freron.com>
> To: "MailMate Users" <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
> Subject: Re: [MlMt] Overwriting default keybindings
> Message-ID: <AA9D79AF-4061-4008-A275-A208D2CF4F19 at freron.com>
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> On 9 Jul 2013, at 15:35, Eric A. Meyer wrote:
>
>> Hopefully someone with more keybinding experience than me can help
>> out.  I'm trying to overwrite the standard keybindings for Reply,
>> Reply All, Reply List, and Forward so that when I reply to or forward
>> a message, it is also marked as read.  I have these lines in my 
>> custom
>> keybindings file:
>>
>> 	"@r" = ( 'setTag:', '\\Seen', 'reply:');
>> 	"@R" = ( 'setTag:', '\\Seen', 'replyAll:');
>> 	"~@r" = ( 'setTag:', '\\Seen', "replyList:");
>> 	"@F" = ( 'setTag:', '\\Seen', 'forwardMessage:');
>>
>> However, while messages are replied to or forwarded just fine, the
>> marking-as-read thing doesn't happen.  I know the keybindings file is
>> being loaded and used because other custom keybindings in the file 
>> are
>> recognized.  Any thoughts as to what I might be doing wrong?  Or is
>> overwriting the default keybindings something that can't be done?
>
> Custom key bindings only work for keys that are not ?taken? by
> something else. In this case the standard menu items. For some of the
> key bindings it is probably possible to use System Preferences ?
> Keyboard ? Keyboard Shortcuts to change the default to some dummy key.
> After that your bindings would work. But I wouldn't recommend that. 
> It's
> a mess and it wouldn't work for the reply-related menu items since
> MailMate dynamically change these key bindings based on Composer
> preferences.
>
> Your particular problem (marking as read) is better solved by rules, 
> but
> you'll have to wait for me to release that feature :-)
>
> (I haven't yet looked into how hard it would be to override the menu 
> key
> bindings. It would, at least, be tricky to both display the key 
> binding
> in the menu *and* override it.)
>
> -- 
> Benny
>
>
>

You could probably create a workaround via [Keyboard Maestro][1]. I have 
one that remaps ⌘↩ to ⇧⌘D (Send Mail). It should be possible to 
create one that activates the keyboard shortcut for reply or forward, 
pauses a second, and then activates the shortcut for marking as read.

I've also set it up to only be active within MailMate, so the remapping 
doesn't effect anything else.

Some screenshots of mine:

![⌘Enter to Send][2]

![MailMate Activate][3]

![MailMate Deactivate][4]

My best,
Bruce


[1]:http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/
[2]:http://brucesteinberg.co/Images/2013-07-10/Keyboard-Maestro-Send.tiff
[3]:http://brucesteinberg.co/Images/2013-07-10/Keyboard-Maestro-MM-Activate.tiff
[4]:http://brucesteinberg.co/Images/2013-07-10/Keyboard-Maestro-MM-Deactivate.tiff

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Bruce Steinberg
Lighting Design
www.BruceSteinbergLD.com