Re: First UI component needing replacement.

[thristian atdot org]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 10:11:58AM -0400, Michael T. Babcock wrote:
> 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.

You ever tried to pick your own keybindings from scratch? Even in
something as simple as Quake, it's not easy. Working out a logical and
consistent keymapping can be quite a bit of work. If this were done,
I'd want a "theme" style feature where I can save and load sets of
keybindings, with default themes of "Emacs", "Windows", and
"Macintosh". I doubt any keybinding functionality of reasonable
complexity could decently emulate vi. :)

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