Mapping copy and paste to function keys in Windows

[Chris Good]

Hi GnuCash users,

 

Windows 7, GnuCash 2.6.2

 

Just a question, no biggie. Just trying to make my GC experience even better
than it already is.

 

I find when entering transactions in the register, I often copy and paste
amounts using Control-C and Control-V and thought it would be much faster if
I could use, say:

F11 as copy and F12 to paste.

 

Ideally it would be nice to have a function key that also selected the
current field, and copied it but that would just be gravy.

 

http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Keyboard_Shortcuts says it is possible to remap
hotkeys.

 

So I tried modifiying C:\Users\[USERNAME]\.gnucash\accelerator-map changing
(while GnuCash not running)

 

; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MainWindowActions/EditCopyAction" "<Primary>c")

; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MainWindowActions/EditPasteAction"
"<Primary>v")

 

to:

 

(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MainWindowActions/EditCopyAction" "F11")

(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MainWindowActions/EditPasteAction" "F12")

 

I see in accelerators-map that help is defined as F1 so I hoped F11 and F12
should work.

 

It doesn't work. Ctrl-C & Ctrl-V still work as before and Copy and Paste
still show as Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V in the Edit menu.

 

I found a couple of references in google that more or less seem to say it
won't work.

 

http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/Re-Re-Keyboard-Shortcuts-td4674640.html

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=726483

 

Does anyone please know how to do what I want?

If it is not possible, I'd like to update the wiki (if I'm allowed) but I'm
not sure what I'd say at the moment, other than this doesn't seem to work on
Windows in versions 2.6+.

 

I haven't tried, but could this work in Linux or does it not work in all
platforms from 2.6?

 

Maybe there is a better way for me to enter transactions which wouldn't
require copying and pasting amounts so much?

I tend always be in transaction journal mode (all splits show) and to
'duplicate' just about all the transactions I enter, so that all splits are
copied into the new transaction.

I.e. I 'find' transactions with a unique word in the description, then
duplicate one of them.

If I just type the description into a blank transaction, it brings up the
last transaction as expected but doesn't add the other splits from the last
transaction, so I find it faster to find, then duplicate.

Many thanks for your time,

Regards, Chris Good

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