Concatenate Commands

[Pesala]

Difficult to do perhaps, with the existing GUI, but in Opera 12.18 keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures can be assigned to perform more than one command, or to perform conditional commands. For example:

• GestureUp = Open link in new page | Stop | Go to start | Close page
• GestureDown = Open link in background page | Go to end | New page

[Guilimote]

For those who ask what could be the benefit of this, here is an other example I also used on Opera 12:

• Different commands depending on the context, as Pesala explained (using "|")
• Multiple actions on a single gesture, using "&". Example:
  • ↓ → Close tab & Next Tab (by order) to close current tab AND display the one immediately on the right
  • ↓ ← Close tab & Previous Tab (by order) to close current tab AND display the one immediately on the left

[ukanuk]

Thinking of the mnemonic shortcuts suggestion, a more general solution is the ability to make many-to-many relationships between commands and actions, using combinations of OR, SEQUENTIAL AND, and SIMULTANEOUS AND operators. So for example, we could have:

, (comma) = SEQUENTIAL AND
Example: Press "g" twice to scroll to top of page:
g,g = Scroll Page to Top

+ = SIMULTANEOUS AND
Example: Press "t" and "p" together to paste and go in a new tab
t+p = New Tab, Paste and Go

| = OR
Example: Press "t" or "CTRL+T" to open a new tab
t | (CTRL+N) = New Tab

Super Fancy Example, probably not useful but just to illustrate the power: Hold CTRL and make a down-left mouse gesture to close the current tab, open the previous tab by order, and paste and go
CTRL + (↓ ,←) = Close Tab + Previous Tab (by Order) , Paste and Go

[ukanuk]

I forgot to mention, the g,g example is from https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/2024/vim-like-keyboard-interface

[QuHno]

Not to forget the toggle commands for stuff that allows multiple states ...

VB-18247 btw.

[rojaviv]

Is this analagous to macros ?

[sgunhouse]

Sort of. Opera 12.18 (and earlier) had a few ways of combining commands for use with custom buttons or shortcuts. You could use "&" to chain commands (to execute all of them in order) or "|" for alternatives (If the first command is not applicable, then do the second command.) No loops and no conditionals, so not much of a language.

[killchain]

I was going to post about the same thing, not a big surprise that it's already requested, good thing I searched first...

I vote for that as well. It's ridiculous how many requests for specific features it can save, i.e. the other day I was thinking how convenient it would be to open a new tab and tile it next to the active one, all in one command.

[jumpsq]

I guess that there could just be a section for advanced options.

What I would really wish for was a rich set of options that was well documented and where we could choose our features from.

[bimlas]

@Pesala

What do you think about this? Execute quick commands by Javascript

[legobuilder26]

This idea is similar to smart assistant "Routines" with smart assistants, IMO. Maybe it could be its own section in settings for keyboard shortcuts, mouse gestures, and maybe automatically do something at a certain time?

[Pesala]

This is now available in Snapshot 4.1.2350.3, so is In Progress.

[Pesala]

@pesala said in Concatenate Commands:

Difficult to do perhaps, with the existing GUI

I think the developers have done a great job with integrating this feature into the GUI. Once a new Command Chain has been defined, it can be assigned a keyboard shortcut or mouse gesture.

Perhaps later Command chains are also available for Menu customisation.

[jane.n]

And now this feature is also available in the stable version of Vivaldi. Take a look at Vivaldi 4.1 release blog here: https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-introduces-accordion-tabs-and-command-chains/ and update your browser.