I do know there may be other underlying problems that might be corrected to solve this problem instead of adding a hack. PID is not tuned, poor insulation, shop is drafty or gets cold at night, heater core is shot or not bedded well, etc.
And that there are fixed settings that might be configured more modestly to avoid the situation to begin with. But still, a little bit of a dynamic feedback loop, an STFD (slow the f down) algorithm might be useful.

i dont know anything about firmware patches... that patch mentioned above will let me use the keyboard to extrude and retract? how/where do i install it?

Yeah, that is a c# .net source code patch, for the windows host software. So unless you are willing and able to pull the source tree, get it to build and apply the patch it won't be much use to you. That being said, it was trivial to implement. The true burden comes from testing, documenting and supporting the feature.

I suspect it won't be long, since they figured out how to use a FileWatcher, that they will learn how accelerator keys work too and add that feature.

Its closed source from >0.95 onwards.

I can't say I have not enjoyed having my way with the source code and being able to taint it as I see fit but...
Given what a big ball of mud that thing is maybe it is better it is closed source now.

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Its closed source from >0.95 onwards.

Is there any place to download an older version.  You know... For those of us that didn't save each version in a separate location?

Most immediate answer would be check the repetier.com website under Downloads - there you'll find about the previous 5 versions ?... Source code is also all still up on 'Github and you can download and compile them - they are still there, just no longer updated in past 3 months and wont be from here on out based on 'repetiers' comments. You could go back to 0.85b/0.84 via the Solidoodle files but there has been literally dozens of bugfixes and enhancements between even 0.90D and 0.95F .. and none of those will be in the source code or older versions.

Incidentally - Directory Monitoring is supported natively in 0.95+.. so except the keyboard shortcuts (which you can do via a hotkey macro app as well without rewriting the program).. its all there in the untainted mainstream version *shrug*

Its closed source from >0.95 onwards.

Is there any place to download an older version.  You know... For those of us that didn't save each version in a separate location?

Sometimes my prints do fail, but their failure is rarely if ever anything major. I just lose out on the plastic. It's certainly not outrageous.

Are you crazy man?!?! Remember what happened when someone left a 3D printer unattended @ 1600 penn!!!!

Sometimes my prints do fail, but their failure is rarely if ever anything major. I just lose out on the plastic. It's certainly not outrageous.

I do lower my feedrate by 20% at least when i leave, just incase. Generally not pushing the speed is more reliable.

I don't think I could ever get my printer to where I could trust it to run unattended

The key word there being trust since firing off a well sliced print is an act of faith in and of itself every single time.
I wander by the printer and make sure the bed is clear then settle down in my comfy chair in another room. When something strikes my fancy I slice it and send it. Then I can watch it on the web cam or wander into the lab to see that the first layers are going OK since that is where the trouble starts. Call me lazy. Maybe I will add an @tweet host command next

I was thinking of digging into RH source code just so I could add a key binding for the Extrude and Retract buttons.

Override ProcessCmdKey in view\PrintPanel.cs looking for (Keys.Up | Keys.Control) or (Keys.Down | Keys.Control) and call buttonRetract_Click or buttonExtrude_Click seems to work. Patch attached.