[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #7970: Keyboard Intents
- From: "axeld" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 15:43:43 -0000
#7970: Keyboard Intents
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Reporter: sffjunkie | Owner: axeld
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Preferences/Keymap | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by axeld):
I don't really see why Emacs keybindings would be useful, besides that you
must not reuse any Alt-* combinations since those may break applications
(Alt-F is usually "find" btw).
But the fact that you find Emacs keybindings useful (while I might prefer
Vi style) shows that intents like suggested might be a good idea. And
indeed there isn't a single useful text editor that I know of that isn't
completely configurable to the user's needs (wants). BTextView is a good
example of why such a mechanism might be useful system wide, and it would
already serve as a solution to use for applications that wants to have
their shortcuts configurable. If done properly, all text editors could
make behave the same by default (including BTextView) which alone would be
a very nice thing to have.
Another reason for having such a system are different keymaps and keyboard
layouts - what works well in one combination, might be very annoying in
another. And best of all, you wouldn't need to use it at all, if you see
no value in it ;-)
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