Ilya suggested,
> Is there any chance you guys will add Left/Right-Ctrl-Shift
> bindings for changing the editing widgets' strong BiDi directionality?
Suggestions along this line have come up many times, but they are problematic.
Many X and non-X *NIX utilities treat Ctrl-shift or Alt-shift as key modifiers,
not keyboard events (which makes more sense IMHO), and so setting Ctrl-shift to
changing the RTL mode essentially breaks them (in most cases you can change
the bindings in these applications, of course, but this means systematically
rejecting defaults, breaking tutorials, etc.
My favorite example is the Alt-% (Alt-shift-5) for query-replace in Emacs
and XEmacs, but there are many more like it.
While this argument seems to apply only at the general, Xkb level (I assume
there is no prominent default Alt-% binding in the Mozilla editor), it is
important to keep this kind of consistency accross applications. After 7
major applications use the ctrl/alt-shifts, it will be very confusing to
try to put other standards in general. And then we will be stuck with this
bad choice made by MS.
Do we really want to break consistency with the *NIX world for consistency
with Windows? Doesn't that make you feel the least bit awkward? Don't we
ever want to pose a viable, independent alternative?
The alternative, of course, is the perfectly useless Scroll Lock key, which
even has a unused led attached to it on most keyboards.
Just my 2 cents,
Shai.
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