Re: Keybindings Problems

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Frank Belew wrote:

> Here's the situation:
> We have a Keybinding scheme selection box in the control-center
> It has a dropdown with 2 choices, Emacs, and GNOME Default
> I choose emacs, but in many applications (including gedit which I would
> think would be one of the few to get it right), are busted.
>
> In gedit, I hit Ctrl-A, it selects all, emacs says beginning of line
> There are other examples of this kind of inconsistent behaviour
> throughout gnome. Some worse than others.
>
> Since its a problem with XEMBED weirdness and menus, I'm mailing here
> instead of filing specific bugs on the apps. If this option can't be
> helped, why is it there to confuse someone who _thinks_ they are going
> to get their emacs keybindings? 
>  
Most likely there is a keyboard shortcut (accelerator) in one of the 
menus for ctrl+A.  Keyboard shortcuts take precedence over keybindings, 
so the widget will never see the ctrl+A.  I am not sure what it would 
have to do with XEMBED.

(this is just a description of why the problem occurs.  Not a way to fix 
it).

James.

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