Re: A proposal for the keybindings issue
Re: A proposal for the keybindings issue
- Subject: Re: A proposal for the keybindings issue
- From: "Nathaniel Gray" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 08:54:23 -0800
On Nov 24, 2007 12:46 AM, Harald Hanche-Olsen <email@hidden> wrote:
> + "Nathaniel Gray" <email@hidden>:
>
> > It occurs to me that there's a modifier binding that could make most
> > people happy. The motivation is that in most unix software these
> > days Ctrl and Alt are the most-used modifiers by far. See for
> > example <http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tip/2289.html>.
>
> Hmm, interesting, and a good illustration of the fact that people are
> different. My own unix experience is almost exclusively Sun and
> FreeBSD (and OS X lately of course), and I have been running just a
> basic window manager and spent much of my time in emacs. So I never
> got really infected with this infestation of the Alt key everywhere.
> On the other hand, emacs without a meta key is hell on earth. All
> this just goes to show that I am probably weird enough that I
> shouldn't get to decide for others. 8-)
And I'm not an emacs user *or* a vi user, so I'm probably a "strange"
X11 user. Doesn't emacs have the option to use Alt for Meta?
> > So why are we wasting one of our precious modifiers on Meta?
>
> I have long been wondering why X11 on OS X wastes one on Command.
> Turning off "Enable keyboard shortcuts in X11" was my very first act
> when I first tried out X11 on the Mac. Again, maybe I am too weird in
> my demands. (Heck, I prefer stick shifts to automatics, too.)
Bah, I totally forgot about that setting. I guess you can see how
quickly I disabled that as well... ;^) Well there goes my idea -- I
can't imagine Apple giving up on Cmd...
Cheers,
-n8
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>>>-- Nathaniel Gray -- Caltech Computer Science ------>
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