Re: intercepting accelerator keypresses

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 28 Mar 2003, Michael Meeks wrote:

> Hi Jason,
> 
> On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 19:45, Jason Hildebrand wrote:
> > I'm implementing the NautilusView interface for vim, so that vim can be
> > used to view/edit a file in Nautilus, and have run into a snag wrt
> > keypresses.
> > 
> > Nautilus uses "Escape" as an accelerator for the "View->Stop" menu item.
> > This prevents the use of Esc within the embedded Vim to jump back to
> > command-mode, since Nautilus seems to swallow this keypress (even when
> > the menu item is insensitive).  There are other accelerators which
> > conflict with vim keypresses as well.
> > 
> > Is there a way for the control to get first dibs on handling these
> > keypresses?
> 
> 	AFAIK no - the event comes from X itself, to the toplevel window and
> thus it gets first go at it. Of course - if you have the focus in the
> child window then the same thing applies in reverse - you get the first
> go at it. I'm afraid I don't fully understand the focus handling issues
> with Controls / Window Managers / Sloppy focus etc. ;-) but Federico
> does, so I'd bother him about it if you can find a spare moment from
> him.

The escape accelerator for view->stop has been removed in CVS head. It 
conflicted with several other uses of escape in Nautilus and was only 
introduced (semi-)recently.

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