On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Adrien Beau wrote: > On Monday 22 April 2002 10:28, Lars Clausen wrote: >> >> Ctrl-A should be Select All. I'd like to make Front and Back >> be Ctrl-> and Ctrl-<, but those are clumsy on US keyboards. > > One of the problems with key bindings is that if they use > something other than letters, they always are clumsy on at > least one kind of keyboard. > > One of the things that work quite well for me (as a user), > once all Ctrl+Letter combinations have been exhausted is, > well, I don't know a good name for it so I'll call it > Ctrl+MultiLetter combinations. > > I have used a few applications that implement this, notably > a text editor in Windows. IIRC, it had several search > shortcuts, all of which where in the form Ctrl+F, another > letter. E.g., Ctrl+F,F would "search again", Ctrl+F,N would > start a new search, Ctrl+F,B would "search backwards", etc.
While I'm used to the concept from Emacs, I don't think the GTK input model really supports that well. -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| Hårdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I |---------------------------- will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket? _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
