[qutebrowser] Does fake-key work in Insert Mode?

[Florian Bruhin]

On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 10:20:59AM +0000, Alison Souza wrote:
> I used the command “bind <Alt-:> fake-key -g ?“.
> 
> When I press ‘Alt :’, the question mark is not sent in Insert Mode. It’s
> not sent in the statusbar either, actually.

Your bind command binds that key combination in normal mode. You will need to
use ":bind --mode=insert" to bind a key in insert mode (and perhaps use
"Alt-Shift-:" if your keyboard layout needs shift to type :).

> I have an AHK script that sends that key when I press the same hotkey, and
> it seems to have made that key be sent in the statusbar, which made the
> Qute hotkey appear to be working, when it in fact is not. I have now
> disabled the script temporarily.
> 
> Well, the problem hasn’t changed much. Now when I use the hotkey, ‘;’ is
> sent in the statusbar, but not in Insert Mode.

I don't understand what you mean exactly :)

Florian

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