Re: gnome key binding standard

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On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Ben 'The Con Man' Kahn wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Guillermo S. Romero / unnamed / Familia Romero wrote:
> 
> > First: can someone explain me clearly all the mess of meta, ctrl, alt and so on?
> > My keyboard has: alt and altgr and two ctrl. Some keyboards have two Windoze
> > and one Menu too (I think it will be cool to get some paint and a penguin or
> > X transfer to replace them). I know that you can remap keys. But dunno how
> > they are set in my Linux now.
> > 
> > >> Ctrl+A Edit/Select All
> > >> Ctrl+X Edit/Cut
> > >I hate that one. x is associated with "exit" to most people, and not at all
> > >with cut.
> > 
> > GIMP (and Mac, IMO) uses ctrl+Q and ctrl+W (one for quit app, the other for
> > quit window (document)).
> > Keeping cut, paste and copy near helps the users (X is like a scissors
> > graphic ;] ).
> > 
> > >> Ctrl+C Edit/Copy
> > >> Ctrl+V Edit/Paste
> > >> Ctrl+F Find
> > >> Ctrl+Z Edit/Undo
> > >> Ctrl+Y (?) Edit/Redo
> > >I think u and r are used more often for undo/redo on unix, no? it's also
> > >much easier to remember.
> > 
> > Maybe, no personal preferences here (Z is near the cut-copy-paste block, so
> > maybe faster to use, but U is more easier to remember). ctrl+Z & ctrl+Y are
> > taken from GIMP, are they not? Using shift is also interesting.
> 
> 	I'm working on a large email with lots of other comments, but if
> the keyboard shortcuts are being decided on now, don't forget to add:
> 
> Ctrl-Insert Copy
> Shift-Shift Paste
> 
> 	Those have been working on every DOS and Windows machine since the
> beginning and even emacs and xterm support them.

you mean Shift-Insert for Paste. and yeah, i agree they're probably the
most standard keys for that function.
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