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Can't use hotkeys after I press the E key

jeboothy
jeboothy over 3 years ago

Hello,

I took the trouble of setting up some useful hotkeys (move, rotate, mirror, done, etc...). The program is almost unusable to me without them. They start off working perfectly, but after 1-10 minutes, all hotkeys stop working until I restart the program. It only takes 20 seconds, but it is very very annoying. I've noticed that pressing the E key at any time breaks all of the hotkeys, I'm not sure if any other key does. It's pretty easy to accidentally press E while I'm working. Maybe I am stuck in some sort of tool I can't get out of, but the hotkeys won't work until I restart. I have a hotkey bound to 'done' and 'cancel', and neither helps it recover. Any help would be appreciated.

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  • jeboothy
    0 jeboothy over 3 years ago

    Pressing some of the punctuation keys also wreaks all of the keybinds.

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  • JuanCR
    0 JuanCR over 3 years ago

    Off the top of my head .. Write "set" in the command line and verify if you have the key "e" assigned to something 

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  • jeboothy
    0 jeboothy over 3 years ago in reply to JuanCR

    I see that 'e' is assigned to nothing.

    'set e               =                   '

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  • mahimag
    +1 mahimag over 3 years ago

    This might happen when we have mistakenly entered an incorrect command on the command prompt, say blank space or may be a full stop “.”, which are not easily recognizable.  Instead of restarting, either - click enter on command prompt to exit the particular command or - may be remove all the incorrect characters from that command.

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  • jeboothy
    0 jeboothy over 3 years ago in reply to mahimag

    I see, I can't even see the command line by default. It is really hard to tell if you're in the middle of a command or not.

    Thank you 

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