Change Ctrl+Shift+E to Ctrl+Shift+K to avoid conflicts with Gnome emoji

[Anatoli Babenia]

Vertical split shortcut Ctrl+Shift+E now doesn't work in Gnome, because Gnome uses it for emoji entry. To avoid conflicts, the vertical split action can be remapped to Ctrl+Shift+K.

[Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail)]

The current shortcuts are E and O as in vErtical and hOrizontal. You can't really have V and H instead because V is the standard for pasting.

I'm wondering if there's a similarly logical choice of letters that's easy to remember, and not as arbitrary as K. I don't know.

[Anatoli Babenia (abitrolly)]

It doesn't matter which scheme is used for shortcut as long as it is available from shortcuts help, and then it gets remembered the `vim` way - by practice.

[Anatoli Babenia (abitrolly)]

Tilix shortcut for vertical splitting is Ctrl+Alt+R, which stands for "Add terminal right". I don't like Ctrl+Alt combination as it is hard to type with my only left hand on a notebook. Ctrl+Shift is much easier. Ctrl+Shift+R in Terminator is for "Reset the terminal". I have no idea what is it for - it does nothing when pressed.

[Anatoli Babenia (abitrolly)]

I have no idea how often it is used. Are there any stats about Terminator shortcuts usage?

[Roman Kovtyukh (hellodeargrandma)]

Hello, Anatoli.

I downloaded about 700 configs of Terminator from GitHub to test version ported to Python3 so I can get some statistics about shortcuts rebinding.

Analyzing configs we need to take in account that some configs are from single repository (577 unique repos).

Here you can see top 10 keybindings:

     56 close_term
     69 prev_tab
     70 next_tab
     72 go_up
     75 go_down
     75 go_right
     78 go_left
     79 split_horiz
     82 split_vert
    103 hide_window

So split_horiz and split_vert are the top keybindings after hide_window (used for quake-mode).

[Anatoli Babenia (abitrolly)]

Hello, Grandma.

That are very good news. I will use the link https://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator/+bug/1825495/comments/5 to reference these stats from now on, and if you have a public project that's collecting such statistics, I'd be glad to contribute to make it reusable for other cases as well.