Re: [Evolution] (bug!) Emacs keys again...

[Roland Orre <orre bacon su se>]

On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Kaushal Kumar wrote:
> Roland Orre wrote:
> > Now I've cleary found that the key issue is a bug in evolution!
> ...
> On new mail the second time, is the value of gconftool-2 -s
> /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme Emacs or it is reset to Default?

> also, please point me to the updated file you are using as
> GNOME_GtkHTML_Editor-emacs.

This is the one I currently use:
http://www.neurologic.se/misc/GNOME_GtkHTML_Editor-emacs.xml

I think that is actually the default gtkhtml one.

> On new mail the second time, is the value of gconftool-2 -g
> /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme Emacs or it is reset to Default?

The gnome/gtk settings doesn't change. It is still set to Emacs
and it only it is only evolution, which is affected. Other
applications work.

> finally, the keybindings which appear to be emacs specific (i.e. which
> are not same as ms keybindings) are very few in the *-emacs.xml file of
> gtkhtml. can you give some examples of the keybindings which are
> failing. Thanks.

Yes, I know. I haven't bothered much about it, I intended to do someth
about the general key settings later. It was only when the most basic
keys ^A,^F,^B,^P,^N,^E,^K,^Y stopped working in evolution after my
upgrade to 2.2.1.1 it became serious.

The general key binding issue for gtk applications need to be fixed
I think. I can't use e.g. thunderbird of the same reason. I also
suggest that an application should be able to start a custom
specified editing client, like a full emacs client, which you can
do when using pine for instance, that is convenient.

        Best regards
        Roland Orre