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 12:01, Alan Horkan wrote:
>>
>> Taking a similar function as an example
>> Ctrl++ and Ctrl+- are used for Zoom In/Out
>> but some cleverer programs realise that + is in fact Shift =
>> and allow both = and + (some programs allow only = which i
>> find annoying)
>>
>> Or maybe i am imagining it and there are no programs that
>> clever and they all use either = or + but not both.
> 
> Well, there are two mechanisms at work, and I'll take an
> example on Vim. Plus you'll have a good sample of French
> keyboard madness.
[...French keyboard madness deleted...]

Perhaps we could have the default keybindings be internationalizable?  But
then, can we ask what keyboard is in use?  Asking for LANG is not good
enough for that.

-Lars

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