Re: [Usability] the emacs keyboard shortcut issue

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 12:11, Sunnan wrote:

> 3) As I remember, getting the emacs keyboard shortcuts to work was
>    kinda a hassle, since they were off by default. How about, for
>    *those who've chosen to use emacs keyboard shortcuts*, having them
>    override the other Ctrl-key shortcuts? If I need to print, I can
>    choose it from the menu (via mouse or Alt).
> 
> Or maybe there's another good solution.

Well, to me the underlying problem is really that keyboard themes only
affect text entry fields.  If a keyboard theme affected the entire
desktop, including shortcuts on menus (and changing the mnemonic access
key from Alt to something else if need be), then the problem wouldn't
really arise.... Edit->Select All could then be mapped to ^Xh instead of
the "troublesome" Ctrl-A etc.

Getting that to work for arbitrary keyboard themes would be nigh on
impossible, though :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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