key bindings that can run multiple actions

[maan2003]

Describe the feature

Support binding sequences of multiple actions to a single keystroke.

using workspace::SendKeystrokes is a hack.

[Moshyfawn]

What are your thoughts on how workspace::SendKeystrokes could be made more native?

[maan2003]

like instead of value of key binding being a single action it should be multiple actions, exact format will be weird because we have already use array for action argument

[notpeter]

One complexity I want to note is that async nature of many actions. For example triggering ["Format Buffer", "Save Buffer", "Close Buffer"] requires the creation of a silent "async wait" step between each of those. While other multi-action binds wouldn't necessarily need to wait ["Save Buffer", "Switch to Terminal"].

[calebmeyer]

I ran into this today. When you use Editor::ConvertToSnakeCase (or the other case conversions), it leaves the updated text selected.

I'm a vim mode user (and came via spacemacs), so I use space as my leader and do leader c s (for Convert to Snake case). But binding it directly means that I had to do escape leader c s escape j to move to the next line (which I often also want to change to snake case), or I would end up with a selection and accidentally kill the text I just updated.

Like the OP says, I can work around it with SendKeystrokes, but if there is ever another command that has a similar name, my keybinding may stop working:

            "space c s": [
                "workspace::SendKeystrokes",
                "cmd-shift-p convert snake enter escape"
            ],

[claytonrcarter]

SendKeystrokes would solve most of my needs if it were able to return the cursor to the original position. For example, I would like to bind a key that does:

1. Move cursor to end of line
2. insert ;
3. move back to where I had been

SendKeystrokes works well for 1 and 2, but it can’t (or I haven’t found a way to) do 3.

That said, I agree that SendKeystrokes feels like a hack: I would prefer to build these sort of macros with the actual command/action names, not the keys they happen to be bound to.

[fresh2dev]

@claytonrcarter, in the meantime:

"space a ;": [
  "workspace::SendKeystrokes",
  "m ` shift-a ; escape ` `"
],

• m` to mark before jump
• shift-a to jump to end of line in insert mode
• ; add the semicolon
• escape back to normal mode
• `` to jump back to marked location