Add action groups Custom11 to Custom20 (with ALT)

[Snark]

Title pretty much says it all.  We've got all those number keys sitting up at the top of the keyboard, we've got the ALT key sitting right there unused.  Add ten new action groups, with the default key binding of ALT+number.  Thus, Custom11's default key binding is ALT+1.

Personally, I'd find this handy for lots of cases where I have two things I want to do, which are somewhat closely related... pairing them up so that one of them can be "3" and the other is "ALT+3" would be really handy, and save me from using up two of the precious number keys.

Technobabble that's uninteresting to anyone who's not a programmer or modder, relegated to spoiler section.

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Not only would this be really handy from a player perspective, but I think this would be easy to do from a programmatic standpoint without breaking things, too.  Internally, KSP models action groups as a flags enum.  In some ways that's handy, but it does kinda box them in as far as adding new action groups is concerned-- you have to have one bit per enum value, and there are only so many bits to go 'round.

They've used up 16 bits of the flags for the existing action groups.  Adding Custom11 through Custom20 would be another ten bits, which they've got room for... and there would still be another few bits left for future expansion if-and-when they're so inclined.

 

[Just Jim]

I would love to see this.  There have been many times I wish I had more than just 10 action groups to work with.

[Andem]

This is such a great idea, I'm amazed it isn't already in the game,