Re: First UI component needing replacement.

["Michael T. Babcock" <mbabcock fibrespeed net>]

This is part of why I once suggested that we have keybinding profiles in the
control centre and that such 'standard' things to bind keys to as
LEFT/RIGHT, word-at-a-time, beginning of line, etc. all simply be named in
Gnome software, instead of being queried directly.

if (keypress == GNOME_KEY_LEFT) move_cursor_left();

You get the idea.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: First UI component needing replacement.


>
> > Except that ctrl+a is already Well Known as select all.
> >
> > The problem with using any Emacs ideas, is that all the shortcuts in
> > it are completely counter to 12+ years of common shortcuts on the
> > Win32 and Macintosh platforms.  This makes them fairly useless.
>
> Ooops.
>
> Well, a lot of applications have an "enable Emacs keybindings"
> option.  This would be a nice plus for all of us who have tortured
> ourselves using Unix the hard way for many years.  8)
>
> I'm actually no great fan of either set of bindings; I just wish the
> universe would pick one and stick with it.  ::sigh::