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Hotkeys: rebuilding definitions

Reading the settings files and rebuilding the keyboard shortcut definitions is a mostly invisible process, especially when you've defined their locations using the Settings > Misc menu.

However, sometimes instructions are in order, like you get when rebuilding the Audacity keys:

Or the ones for Double Commander:

Also, the various things this tool expects aren't always defined in the preferred way. TC for instance has a help file describing what the keys do, and a resource file describing the various command and their descriptions, but no configuration file connecting the two - so I had to write a tool to do that manually. The first version looked like this:

but eventually I expanded it to this (with the possibility to save results to an intermediary file):

I named this tool "Command Merger". It should be usable for other plugins as well.

Note that in general, when you rebuild the definitions from the settings, they will overwrite changes that have been made using this application but have not been ported back.