Assigning "Enter" Shortcut to the Pan Tool -- Finally!

I cannot be the only ex-LR user who keeps hitting "Enter" after adjusting a crop. Of course, in C1 that leads to the compare variant being toggled, i.e., not to the confirmation of the crop.

One of the latest feature additions -- the ability to assign shortcuts to the cursor tools -- was one step closer to my nirvana of being able to assign the pan (hand) tool to the "Enter" key. However, the shortcut editor does not appear to support assigning any function the "Enter" key because the latter confirms a shortcut definition.

Here's my workaround:

Locate the file that contains your custom shortcut definitions. On Win7 it is in the folder

C:\Users\<YOUR USER LOGIN>\AppData\Local\CaptureOne\CustomCommands

The file is named

"<YOUR SHORTCUT NAME>.xml",
e.g., "Daves Alternative Shortcuts.xml".

Before you do anything, create a copy of it so that when you mess up something, you can simply go back by deleting your messed up file and renaming the copy to the original file name.

Now that you have a backup copy, open the file in an editor (I used Wordpad) and search for

<Command CommandName="ToggleCompare" CommandShortcut="13"/>

and replace it with

<Command CommandName="ToggleCompare" CommandShortcut="0"/>

i.e., just change the "13" into a "0".
This will unassign the "Enter" key from the "Toggle Compare Selection" function. You can use the standard shortcut editor to assign a key to this function later, if you like.

Now search for

<Command CommandName="CursorToolPan" CommandShortcut="72"/>

or just the string "CursorToolPan" in case you changed the "H" shortcut (the "72" is ASCII code for "H").

Replace it with

<Command CommandName="CursorToolPan" CommandShortcut="13"/>.

Now, when you press "Enter" the "Pan" ("Hand") tool will be selected!
Of course, you can put the "13" (ASCII code for "Enter") after any other function you like.

A thousand thanks to Phase One who made it possible to assign user-defined shortcuts to the cursor tools! I was able to do the last step on my own. 😊

Hope this will be of help to someone else as well.