[Usability] Subject: Re: Using Control-Esc and Windows keys to access

["Thomas Folz-Donahue" <eigenlambda gmail com>]

From: Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> :

> Gnome has an emacs mode of text boxes and things like that doesn't it

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Enabling the emacs mode is just a bad idea.  It conflicts
too much with common application shortcuts.

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I'll also point out that, since Apple uses Command for all
application shortcuts, Ctrl is pretty much free.  So what
did they do with it?  They added emacs keybindings into
all standard text areas, in the standard defaults.  Does
everybody know them?  Nope, not a chance.  Are there some
people who have learned them and love them?  Absolutely.

Shaun

Are you proposing to move all application-level shortcuts to Super instead of Control?

That is an excellent idea.  Control was invented for sending non-printing characters and jumping around in emacs and readline.

~thomas
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