Yes, exactly. This is what GUI plugins are for. The PD GUI is basically Tcl scripts, so you can modify/extend much of the default behavior.

On Jun 1, 2020, at 10:20 PM, pd-list-request@lists.iem.at wrote:

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On 6/1/20 8:52 PM, oliver wrote:
what i'm thinking of is an entry in the preferences where i could assign
f.e.: CTRL+6 to this :

this sounds like totally doable in a GUI plugin.
no need to add cruft to Pd (in an early release stage).

gfamr
IOhannes

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