Re: [Usability] newbie suggestions ...

[David Moles <david moles vykor com>]

On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 15:23, Alan Horkan wrote:
> Christian Rose wrote:
> 
> >I guess the reason that Ctrl+A is not included is that it usually
> >conflicts with the "Go to the beginning of the line" Emacs shortcut, and
> >GTK+ fields also use Emacs shortcuts. I don't know if Emacs shortcuts
> >will be enabled by default in GNOME2 though, 
> >
> aagh! emacs keybindings by default how scary is that.  useful maybe but 
> please not on by default.  i suppose i will have to just give up and  
> C-x, C-c
> (as far as usability goes it was not obvious C == Ctrl or even Control, 
> but people were willing to help me learn vim so thats what i learnt)

Speaking as someone who spends 60% of the day in Emacs, I'd say it's
not scary at all. :)

Of course, now that I'm using Evolution as my mailer, I'm going to have
to get used to not having them.

I'd be more interested in keyboard shortcuts if the whole clipboard
situation wasn't such a nightmare -- as long as I can't count on cut
and paste to work except within a single application, I'm forced to
fall back on middle-button and the primary X selection. (Which sucks
rocks, considering how often I find that I've accidentally selected a
new area when clicking to change applications, or accidentally selected
an invisible newline, or accidentally just sort of lost the selection.
Can anyone tell me what the relationship is, if any, between the GNOME
clipboard and the X selection? And while you're at it, explain why
GNOME terminal has "Paste" but not "Copy"?