For demonstrations and other presentations, it is very useful to be able to display (to the audience, to students, etc) the currently used action, in the NetBeans status bar. The NetBeans Key Promoter plugin makes this possible:

https://github.com/GeertjanWielenga/NetBeansKeyPromoter

The plugin above reads the 'var/uigestures' file, detects actions logged there, and displays them.

However, there are two blockers, in these files, which excludes certain actions from being logged, e.g., 'rectangular-block-selection':

Module: org.netbeans.modules.editor.lib2
Class: org\netbeans\spi\editor\AbstractEditorAction.java
Code:

private static boolean isLogged(String actionName) {
    return actionName != null &&
            !"default-typed".equals(actionName) && //NOI18N
            -1 == actionName.indexOf("caret") && //NOI18N
            -1 == actionName.indexOf("delete") && //NOI18N
            -1 == actionName.indexOf("selection") && //NOI18N
            -1 == actionName.indexOf("build-tool-tip") &&//NOI18N
            -1 == actionName.indexOf("build-popup-menu") &&//NOI18N
            -1 == actionName.indexOf("page-up") &&//NOI18N
            -1 == actionName.indexOf("page-down") &&//NOI18N
            -1 == actionName.indexOf("-kit-install"); //NOI18N
}

Module: org.netbeans.modules.editor.lib
Class: org\netbeans\editor\BaseAction.java
Code:

if (UILOG.isLoggable(Level.FINE)) {
    String actionName = getValue(NAME) != null ? getValue(NAME).toString().toLowerCase() : null;
    if (actionName != null &&
        !"default-typed".equals(actionName) && //NOI18N
        -1 == actionName.indexOf("caret") && //NOI18N
        -1 == actionName.indexOf("delete") && //NOI18N
        -1 == actionName.indexOf("undo") &&//NOI18N
        -1 == actionName.indexOf("redo") &&//NOI18N
        -1 == actionName.indexOf("selection") && //NOI18N
        -1 == actionName.indexOf("build-tool-tip") &&//NOI18N
        -1 == actionName.indexOf("build-popup-menu") &&//NOI18N
        -1 == actionName.indexOf("page-up") &&//NOI18N
        -1 == actionName.indexOf("page-down") &&//NOI18N
        -1 == actionName.indexOf("-kit-install") //NOI18N
    ) {
        LogRecord r = new LogRecord(Level.FINE, "UI_ACTION_EDITOR"); // NOI18N
        r.setResourceBundle(NbBundle.getBundle(BaseAction.class));
        if (evt != null) {
            r.setParameters(new Object[] { evt, evt.toString(), this, toString(), getValue(NAME) });
        } else {
            r.setParameters(new Object[] { "no-ActionEvent", "no-ActionEvent", this, toString(), getValue(NAME) }); //NOI18N
        }
        r.setLoggerName(UILOG.getName());
        UILOG.log(r);
    }
}

What is the reason for the above exclusions and can they be removed or configured? This blocks a very useful feature to promote NetBeans in YouTube clips, conferences, etc.