Re: [Usability]Re: Accelerator for New Window

["Liam R. E. Quin" <liam holoweb net>]

On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 11:24, David Moles wrote:
> As an Emacs user, I sympathize, but I don't think that there's any
> way we're going to be able to get keyboard shortcuts that are both
> sensible to the wide universe of non-Emacs users (particularly ex-
> Windows and ex-Mac users) but that also don't conflict with
> popular Emacs keybindings.


Of course, Unix shell users have another set... as do vi users.

The first question to ask is this:
[1] To what extent is it acceptable to disenfranchise Unix programmers
    and experienced Unix users?

    An environment that's hostile to these people may lose
    developers.

[2] How can such users be accommodated?

    For example, loadable key-binding sets?  That can make it hard for
    people staffing help desks or sharing a desktop.

[3] Could a mechnism for [2] help users of other systems too, such
    as Macintosh, Windows, CDE, OpenWin, etc?

Liam


 Just off the top of my head I can come
> up with:
> 
>   shortcut    commercial GUI consensus    Emacs meaning
>   --------    ------------------------    -------------
>     C-x       "Cut"                       "Begin 2-stroke sequence"
>     C-v       "Paste"                     "Page Down"
>     C-n       "New"                       "Cursor Down"
>     C-z       "Undo"                      "Background/iconify Emacs"
>     C-w       "Close Window"              "Cut"
>     C-a       "Select all"                "Home" (go to start of line)
> 
> And I'm sure there are dozens of others. I think it would be
> reasonable to have an Emacs-friendly keybinding theme, but I don't
> think it would be reasonable to expect the universe of non-Emacs
> users to learn / work around Emacs keybindings.
>     
> 
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