Re: Key binding questions...

"J.O. Aho" <[email protected]> Tue, 24 May 2005 16:50:59 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.unix
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Robert Heller wrote:

> 	Is it possible to set up Emacs key-bindings in FireFox?  Is it
> NOT possible to set them up in Mozilla?  I don't particularly care about
> versions other then the *nix -- ALL of the computers that I personally
> use run Linux.  I don't own any machines running any other operating
> system and I don't have any reason to get machines running any other
> operating system, so Mozilla or FireFox behaviors under other O/S are a
> non-issue for me.  I do know that with Netscape 4.<mumble> and earlier
> it was easy to get Emacs bindings via the Motif 'translations' resource
> in my .Xdefaults file:

Not sure about the .Xdefaults would work or anything similare, but I know that 
the keybindings for the Mozilla (and should be for Firefox too) are stroed in
extensions/help/resources/locale/en-US/shortcuts-mailnews.xhtml (the mozilla 
source), so editing that file (and the other in the same dir) before compiling 
would give you the behavour you want.
Myself I have a small patch where I restore the old keybidings, as I do 
compile mine mozilla with gtk toolkit instead of the broken gtk2.


  //Aho