On Jul 22, 2009, at 2:22 PM, Donald Allen wrote:
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Michael<mi...@netspark.org> wrote:
Donald Allen wrote:
I realize that these bindings can be changed. But that requires some
work (and knowledge of C) on the part of the user. I'm talking about
the choice of the defaults. Perhaps the keys modified by alt should
instead be modified by ctrl-alt by default? And similarly, alt-shift
-> ctrl-alt-shift? I am going to test this idea by modifying my
setup.
I'll let you know how it works out.
ctrl-alt, alt-shift, ctrl-shift non-english speaking people usually
use
those keys for layout change, win-key is perfect solution, but not
all
keyboards have those.
there is no default keys to satisfy even majority, i think, so why
bother, if majority will have to edit those keys anyway.
I don't buy that argument. Why not pick the set of defaults that
satisfies the largest minority?
It *is* the set of defaults that satisfies the majority. I think many
people change the setting to Mod2Mask to use the Windows key, but the
current default of Mod1Mask will work out of the box for anyone who
doesn't have a Windows/Apple/diamond key.
If the only modifier keys on your keyboard are CTRL and ALT, I suggest
mapping one ALT key to Mod1 and the other to Mod2. I've noticed that
I rarely use the modifier keys on the right-hand side anyway...
