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How can I set up multi key patterns?

For example, in the launcher mode, instead of using t to launch a terminal and b to launch a browser, can I set up lt to launch a terminal and lb to launch the browser?

Just to clarify, this bug is not caused by modalawesome, but by the Lua API of awesome. However since I was approached about this multiple times, I hope this issue will help users to find possible solutions and to solve confusion about this in the future.

This problem is already fixed in the development version of awesome, the related issue can be found here. I can think of two
things that can be done to fix this behavior:

1. You could install the git version of awesome.
2. You could apply the fixes yourself in your installed version. The problem can be fixed by changing two lines of lua code.

Lua does not have alternative patterns. My request is to allow for the equivalent of '(abc|def) specifically the | part that could have a list of patterns or something so that I could functionally have a pattern that would match any of the patterns in the list

What I'm trying to do ultimately is reworking the default functions so that, for example, if I wanted to move the current client forward two tags, I could do either m2f or 2mf to the same effect, i.e. allowing for the count and movement variables to be swapped, recognizing them in the body of the function based on whether they are number or letter. So I tried
pattern = { '(%d*|m)', '(%d*|m)', '[gfb]' }
before realizing that it doesn't use regex.

I know I'm not able to communicate as clearly as I would like to, but I hope that the underlying feature request is here, and if there is a way I didn't think of to implement this in my awesome using the current modalawesome then I'd be happy to use that too

How can I use special keys like <Tab> in the patterns?
Also, will chords work?

Hi, I just found a weird bug I had never noticed before. I think it has been introduced recently, as it begun when I tried the PR for common bindings.

When I hit arrow keys, the sequence grabbed is the name of said key. The issue is that "Left" match my "L" binding to switch to the tag on the right of my main tag.

Hello !

In my configuration, I have some common bindings that were repeated in every modes.

I use these to switch from any mode to any mode, as well as some useful bindings (I have ? and : accessible at all time to show the help popup and launch commands).

I´ve got a fork that allow a special mode (common) to hold common bindings, that is merged with every other, then removed from mode list, in init.lua:process_modes. This let create_hotkey generate help for this common mode, before it´s merged with others and removed.

I can open a pull request if you think it can be useful.

It might be better to allow arbitrary name, but I used common in my own config, so I just hardcoded it that way