Re: Review of Keybindings [Re: Dia's user interface]

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

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

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