Customizing key bindings

You can customise keybindings in the ~/.config/astroid/keybindings file.

You can observe the name of bindings by looking at astroid's debug output when you press a key. For instance by default, by pressing the L key, you'll notice it's bound to main_window.search_tag. Redefining this binding to a new key (e.g. /) is possible with adding this in the keybindings file:

main_window.search_tag=/ 

See here for an example keybindings file that tries to emulate Sup and Vimium (c for compose, J/K for tab switching, etc).

Empty lines and lines starting with # will be ignored.

Unbound targets

There are also unbound targets that you can bind to keys, these are for instance:

# thread view
thread_view.forward_inline=f
thread_view.forward_attached=M-f

# thread index
thread_index.forward_inline=f
thread_index.forward_attached=M-f

this example will overwrite the default keybinding f which forwards a message inlined or attached depending on the configuration option mail.forward.disposition. In this particular example the configuration option no longer has any effect, and you choose whether to inline or attach a message depending on the keybinding.