I feel ur pain

I tried to bind the 'reputation/player info' window to P (default F8 i think..) .. In game it never worked. So I looked at the ini in mydocs\mygames\freelancer....

That file is definitly not user-friendly (suprising, considering this is a microsoft product.... )

It's not all that bad... atleast the defaults work

I wonder if they're gonna fix this in the patch.. well.. if there's gonna be a patch...

At first I thought the key bind menu was kinda slick. It didn't occur to me that there were some keys that are locked. . Just shows that customizability is not a famous trait ...

have you tried to do it directly in the file \DATA\INTERFACE\keymap.ini ??
there is a syntax for shift, alt ... but you probably won't be able to bind something on shift-only ...

Shift and control should not be bound by themselves...

otherwise it'll have trouble when you hit Shift+w or ctrl+v and a few others. you'd probably get two effects when you only want one.

since you're using esdf, why not bind the afterburners to the A key?

I was thinking of redoing the layout...

I use asdf... but i want to change s and d... to brake/reverse and afterburner... so that way, i only run on engine kill mode.

Simple. 3 of my fingers are controlling s,f and e/d which is strafe left, strafe right and accelerate/decelerate respectively. If my afterburn was SHIFT, my fourth finger would be nicely resting on it thus I could still menouver when I afterburn but if I binded it to A, then when I afterburn I can't strafe left at the same time because most probably I will use the same finger that is on s to use a. You follow me?