How to add custom hotkey / keyboard shortcut to Far Manager

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How to add custom hotkey / keyboard shortcut to Far Manager

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I expected this to be some simple thing to do that many users do, but... still not found a way to handle this.

Particularly I want to add keyboard shortcut to some plugin action. Currently I have to press F11 and select the action manually deep inside the menu. This makes many plugins useless, since it is very inconvenient navigating menu each time you need to do a simple action that plugin provides.

So, how can I add user shortcut to FAR? I remember I could do this previously using registry editor (not user friendly way for adding hot key, but...). But it looks like that latest FAR stores its settings somewhere in SQLite DB. And I have to download some tool to edit it. And so... adding user hot key to FAR is even harder now.

Any help is appreciated.
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When you are in the panels press F1 End Enter and read (the links from this page are also important).
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Ok, thank you. For those who need simple explanation:
* Press Ctrl+<.>. The red 'R' letter will appear at the top-left corner of the screen, indicating that recording of the keyboard shortcut action started.
* Execute any action you want to assign to hotkey (for example, press F11 and choose plugin action you need).
* Press Ctrl+<.> again. Choosing hotkey dialog will appear.
* Press hotkey you want to assign to the recorded action.

If you need to remove hotkey, just press Ctrl+<.> twice and then press the hotkey to remove.
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Maybe adding online version of the help for FAR would make googling such questions easier.
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Actually the application of Far macros is much wider than recording and replaying.
Macros are close to plugins by their capabilities.
It is recommended to read %FARHOME%\Encyclopedia\macroapi_manual.en.chm.
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And see here
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