Greetings,

I wanted the browser to open a URL in a new tab whenever I insert it with ALT+ENTER into the location bar. (And whenever I just press just ENTER, I want the URL to be loaded into the current tab - or whatever is configured in "kmeleon.general.openurl"). This is what I am used to from FF and IE.

I first tried the following entry in "accel.cfg":

ALT VK_RETURN = ID_OPEN_LINK_IN_BACKGROUNDTAB

But that didn't work, for whatever reason. (If you know that reason, please tell me.)


My solution was to put the following entry into "accel.cfg":

ALT VK_RETURN = macros(alt_enter)

and create the following macro (copy and paste this into a blank file named "alt_enter.kmm" and put it into your macro directory):

#  K-Meleon Macros (http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?id=MacroLanguage)
#
# ---------- alt_enter.kmm
#
# Dependencies        : alt_enter.kmm
# Resources           : -
# Preferences         : -
# Version             : 0.1  2/20/09   DannyD
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

alt_enter{
	opentab( $URLBAR );
}

$macroModules = $macroModules."alt_enter;";

Now, I'm sure that you K-Meleon pros all know a way to archieve just the same with one magical switch in the configuration - so hit me.

DannyD

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DannyD

ALT VK_RETURN = ID_OPEN_LINK_IN_BACKGROUNDTAB

But that didn't work, for whatever reason. (If you know that reason, please tell me.)

This not work because this is for LINKS, not for address or URL bar.
Already exist an accelerator to do this: CTRL ALT N
Right click in Go button on toolbar and select "Open In New Page", but your solution isn't bad.

Existed accelerator call to "macros(Go_New)" default function defined in main.kmm file.

There are Preferences to setting this but not as you like; Preferences -> Browsing -> In Open select "Typed URLs" and mark option "In a new tab".

ALT VK_RETURN accelerator isn't used because this had some problems with Gecko defaults accelerator keys at least in before versions.

With this you don't need change accel.cfg file, all in one macro file is better because you can disable the macro from Preferences -> Macro Extension.

#  K-Meleon Macros (http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?id=MacroLanguage)
#
# ---------- alt_enter.kmm -------------------------------------------------------
#
# Dependencies        : main.kmm
# Resources           : -  
# Preferences         : -
# Version             : 0.2  2/20/09   desga2
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

alt_enter{
	opentab( $URLBAR );
}
	
_alt_enter_SetAccels{
	setaccel("ALT VK_RETURN", "macros(alt_enter)");
	# You can use this instead to define a new macro function:
	#setaccel("ALT VK_RETURN", "macros(Go_New)");
}
	
$OnInit=$OnInit."_alt_enter_SetAccels;";
$macroModules=$macroModules."alt_enter;";

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/20/2009 05:56PM by desga2.

:cool: I knew it.
I particularly like the use of Go_New().