Quick Node Rename Hotkey

[MattKiefer-vfx]

Summary

Naming nodes is very helpful when building large templates, but there is no keyboard hotkey to rename a node.

What

It would be useful to have a hotkey to quickly rename nodes.

Why

Currently the best solution is to double-click the node to pop out a NodeEditor, delete the old name, type a new one, and hit Alt-F4 to close the node editor.

Not bad, but it would be nice to make this faster and not require the user to switch to mouse / tablet to double-click the node to bring up the NodeEditor. If I'm making a chain of nodes one after another, I could be adding nodes with Tab, then immediately renaming them with F2, hitting Enter to confirm, and then Tab again to add the next node. etc.

Feature proposal

A hotkey that brings up a text field to edit the node name. The name should be highlighted so that the user can begin typing immediately. Pressing Enter will confirm the name change and dismiss the text box, or pressing Esc will dismiss the text box without applying the name change.

The "F2" button feels like a natural choice for this, since many other applications use it as a rename command.

Example scenario(s)

Nuke has this functionality: highlight a node and press 'n'.

[johnhaddon]

Closing - this was released in 0.61.10.0.