Resetting keys to default and using command console

[Ghidrah1]

I am so stuck

1. If I reset all my HL2 game keys to the default setting will that also delete all the previous commands I created over the last 3+ months in the command console?

2. If the ans to #1 is no, Is there a way to use the console to view and or delete all the previous "bind " and "Bind/Toggle" commands?

I never wrote them down and can't recall the keys that were originally binded or toggle binded .

I had set some of the keys to toggle like zoom and duck. I then combined them to my g700s mouse buttons. Then later moved some commands to different buttons. This aft I was playing HL2 ep1 and all mouse and keyboard commands were working. I loaded HL2 ep2 and noticed duck/mouse5 did not work. I went into mouse software dragged duck back to mouse 5, (it never left but did it anyway) tried it and it worked. Went back to HL2 ep1 and it did not work in it. Tried rest of HL games and did not work in them either.

I am hoping I can reset the command console, game keys and mouse settings to default and begin again, but with notation to prevent possible cross command errors.

I also noticed in the mouse software that I could clear the "command to mouse button", but when I tried to edit it, it reverted back to "K". I eventually got it to clear by restarting the comp and opening the software again.

Please and thankyou for any and all help.

[Ghidrah1]

Now when I open the console the letter "Y" floods the command line. In the games keyboard options menu if I attempt to clear a command and edit it the same letter appears when edit is tapped. There's nothing trapped under the keys, and in regular typing none of the letters repeat endlessly unless purposely held down.

[Ghidrah1]

I guess no one has an answer to the previous console command questions.

OK, not much makes sense. Just opened ep1 and tried again at the console and the game options menu, no key flooding in either, so I entered the commands to bind a key and toggle it then later dragged it to the mouse button in its software and it worked. I was also able to repeat same in ep2.

I'm now wondering if maybe my keyboard is beginning a random failure mode, its got to be between 7 to 9 yrs old.

I'm also wondering if one changes a console command that it negates/erases the previous one?

[Calmly Frenetic]

Clicking the "Use defaults" button only resets the default keys for the actions shown on the Options>Keyboard screen. Other binds you have made should not be affected.

Enter the command key_listboundkeys to see a list of all current bindings.
Enter the command unbindall to delete ALL bindings.

One action can be bound to multiple keys, but a key can only have one action bound to it.
So binding a key will erase any previous bindings for it.
Or use the unbind command to erase individual keys.

Maybe your mouse software is faulty?

[Ghidrah1]

Thanks big time Calmly Frenetic,

The offered console commands will be saved in a new accounting file logging all the junk I do from now on. I knew about the unbound command but could not recall the keys I 1st used when binding/toggling. If I hadn't flaked and cleared the existing mouse commands before rewriting I might have saved myself some anxiety. However, I'm thinking my old keyboard may be walking the same old downward spiral of my old Logitech M510 mouse.

As for the newish G700S mouse, (3 months) I had not considered it as a culprit due to the actions of pressed keys while in "Options Keyboard Menu and in Dev Console". True the vibrating image, (like up to 10+ mini ducks persec) occurred while pressing G5. I assumed it was due to the couple thousand Ks that streamed across the command line, (I'm a rung above search and peck). By the time I looked up and saw all the Ks I flaked. As a test I pressed different keys to watch them scroll across the command line, I figured it was like the K was being held down forever.

[Ghidrah1]

Thanks again C. Frenetic, to date, you and A-06 have helped me out a couple 3 times I would not mind being a bit more savy but I think that train left the station way back.

The (list bound keys) command is clever and helpful, I got to clear all the cross commands and unify them across the 4 HL2 games. I know there's a way to create up to 5 profiles with my mouse software but I haven't spent the time to brain it out yet.

I didn't do an (unbindall), I was afraid it might also unbind all the keyboard option menu commands along with my own.

I don't suppose there is a list or file of helpful (Source?) console commands not related to cheat codes that could be D/l'd?

[Calmly Frenetic]

Originally posted by Ghidrah1:

I didn't do an (unbindall), I was afraid it might also unbind all the keyboard option menu commands along with my own.

It does, but you can get those back with the "Use defaults" button.

Originally posted by Ghidrah1:

I don't suppose there is a list or file of helpful (Source?) console commands not related to cheat codes that could be D/l'd?

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Console_Command_List
One of the most helpful commands I know is "find" - it lets you search for text in command name/description. For example: find bind

[Ghidrah1]

YIKES! That's tonza stuff, thanks I'll bookmark it to save HDD space