How to assign a key code to a local layout

[Steve Litt]

Tobias Hilbricht said on Sun, 08 Aug 2021 19:48:21 +0200

>Am Sonntag, den 04.07.2021, 11:53 -0400 schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck:
>> On 7/4/21 9:50 AM, Tobias Hilbricht wrote:  
>> > Dear readers of this list,
>> > 
>> > I created a local layout (Document -> Settings -> Local layout)
>> > which I
>> > can invoke via the menu (Insert -> User defined insert -> Local
>> > insert)
>> > and which works as expected.
>> > How can I assign a key code to this local layout?  
>> 
>> Probably "flex-insert INSETNAME" is what you want. Just assign that
>> command to a key combination.
>> 
>> Riki
>> 
>> 
>>   
>Just in case somebody comes across this thread in quest of an answer to
>the question how to make the assigned key code appear together with the
>entry in the menu  - here something I found out accidentally and which
>I did not find documented:
>
>If I type 
>
>flex-insert "mycustominsert"
>
>- note the quotation marks - and assign a key code, then the key code
>appears in the menu Insert -> Custom insert -> mycustominsert.

If I understand the preceding several posts correctly, this can give me
a capability I've been wanting for years. If anybody has the code to
make a custom insert in a local layout file, could you please post it so
I can replicate your work? To me, it's not at all obvious how to do
this.

Thanks,

SteveT

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