Re: Review of Keybindings [Re: Dia's user interface]

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Alan Horkan wrote:
> disclaimer when i write Ctrl+ i mean Ctrl then another key, emacs users
> seem to prefer the convention C-x C-q but it is should be fairly clear
> what i mean.
[...]
> But let me think about this a bit more
> the functions are:
>
> Send to the very Back
> Send to the very Front
> but also
> Send Backwards
> Send Forwards
>
> would using the keys [] and {} clash with anything?  (i see Tom also
> suggests this, should be okay on all the various Qwerty US/UK keyboards
> dont know about French AZERTY keyboards or anything else unfortunately).
>
> The great thing about this is you have Send Backwards and the the same
> shorcut plus shift to send right to the very back.
> simliar functions are often grouped using shift, Print Ctrl+P and Print
> Setup/Preview Ctrl+Shift+P

That's a clever idea.  It will be slightly tricky on some European
keyboards, but I don't want to stop for that.  Good idea.

AZERTY is evil.  They require shift to do numbers.  I hated them the entire
time I was in Rennes.

-Lars

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