Re: [gedit-list] practicle features

[Doug McNutt <douglist macnauchtan com>]

At 12:53 +0100 3/8/10, Jesse van den Kieboom wrote:
>You can enable 'editable menu shortcuts' from the GNOME preferences.
>Then you simply mouse over a menu item and hit the new shortcut.
>Shortcuts that are not in the menu (like some of the
>gtksourceview/gtktextview shortcuts) you can override using a gtkrc file
>(you can search to find more information on how to do that).

I would really like to make my ubuntu keyboard work like the Apple keyboard on this classic Macintosh.

Here, in a text editor, I can select a few lines of text in my editor - MPW - and press the ENTER key to cause them to be executed as shell commands. When I get to the other box - Linux gedit -  I am forever poking ENTER which results in replacement of my selection with a line-end. (Thank my chosen Creator for UNDO!)

The keyboard over there still has two ENTER keys, one on the keypad and the other on the alfa section. The one in the alfa area is called RETURN on the Mac. Can there be a way to assign the keypad ENTER to en external command while leaving the other for line ends?

A alternative would be to provide a way to assign shortcuts into external tools that use a right mouse button option. That's where your hand is after selecting some text you think is a command.
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