Re: Keybindings Problems

[Dave Bordoley <bordoley pilot msu edu>]

Andrew Sobala wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 14:42, 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? 
> >    
>
> Yeah, the bug's filed in control-center. Although really the emacs mode
> should be removed as a crack feature :-)
Well in all fairness the only reason its a crack feature is that it is 
incredibly hard to impossible to support in most apps in a clean way. [1]

dave

[1] this coming from someone who has no clue about the emacs bindings.