Re: [Evolution] Re: [Evolution-hackers] Weekly Feature Request Summary (12/6)

[Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc cu-portland edu>]

> On 07 Dec 2000 09:39:29 +1030,  wrote:
> > >     - Home/End should move the cursor at the beggining/end of the line ,
> > >     *not* of the message.
> >
> > Debatable.
>
>   I'd personally like this to be changed to use Home/End for start/end
> of a line, and Ctrl-Home/Ctrl-End for start/end of document, simply
> because it's too easy to hit Home/End by mistake.
>
>   (Uhm, it's also a personal thing of mine, as on my laptop End is right
> above Backspace, so sometimes I want to delete and I go to the end of
> the document by mistake.  Terribly annoying.)
>
>   Ctrl-Home/Ctrl-End is also a pretty standard keybinding.  I think only
> GNU Emacs uses Home/End for the whole document.


Just change the default keybindings from "Emacs" to "winblows" if that's
what you really want.  I happen to think that "home" means "the
beginning" and "end" means the "end", and only because we're acustomed
to it being in relation to the line or to the document that we like it
that way.  In more plain English, emacs users are used to it being for
the document, windows users are used to it being the line.  I tend to
think this is a default to be set by the system administrator, and that
leaving it the way that it is is just fine as an install
default.  Again, if you don't like it, it's easy to change (unless you
install Evolution into a different prefix from control-center, in which
case you're SOL)

    Greg