does anyone knows how to add a key combination to access the Addins Menu?
it's very useful and i use it a lot but i would rather not use mouse to open this menu and save extra time not moving my hands far from the keyboard.
Thanks
You can use Tools -> Modify Keyboard Shortcuts...
to modify shortcuts for RStudio commands, including addins.
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jcblum
September 22, 2019, 2:22am
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There are a couple related open issues on GitHub, too, if you want to chime in with an emoji vote (or more):
opened 04:47AM - 09 Sep 18 UTC
closed 11:05PM - 13 May 20 UTC
enhancement
accessibility
I mapped the "Browse Addins" to a key and hoped that I could execute an addin wi… thout moving the mouse (similar to the Command Palette of Sublime Text).
<img width="578" alt="screen shot 2018-09-09 at 12 42 54 am" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1690993/45261167-6e972e00-b3c9-11e8-95b1-eba04d28529d.png">
However, there are two issues here
1. The search box is not auto focused when the window is opened. It means that I need to use my mouse to manually focus the search box.
2. Typing in the search box and then hitting enter will dismiss the window, no matter if there is one result or more than one results.
opened 01:18PM - 01 Aug 19 UTC
closed 11:05PM - 13 May 20 UTC
enhancement
accessibility
command palette
This feature request appeared originally in this RStudio community thread: https… ://community.rstudio.com/t/ide-feature-request-rfc-command-palette/4402
I really love addins but you only have to install a handful before the 'Addins' drop down menu becomes a over-long and a drag to use. (:drum:)
A user's only option around this is to assign an addin to a key combination directly, but if we look in Tools -> Modify Keyboard Shortcuts we observe that RStudio already has many more commands than are featured in the default keymap. Key-bindings in R-Studio are a scarce commodity.
The way that other editors (E.g. Atom, Sublime, VSCode) deal with this situation is the 'Command Palette' -
A kind of command search box. VSCode's amazing extension ecosystem is facilitated in no small by part by its slick command palette, see: [Visual Studio Code Command Palette](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/userinterface#_command-palette). I would really love to see this feature in RStudio.
Related to #3447 in that it may make that enhancement obsolete.
Right now, I can either:
Click once on the Addins menu, but from there I can use the keyboard to find and execute Addins
Use the keyboard to bring up the Browse Addins dialog and find an Addin, but I have to click (twice!) to execute it
Either way, I personally prefer to use browse/search interfaces instead of remembering a slew of shortcuts (and managing shortcut conflicts).
Thanks @jcblum , hope this feature is available soon.
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October 13, 2019, 9:17am
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