Re: Key binding questions...

  Akkana <[email protected]>,
  In a message on Tue, 24 May 2005 11:07:15 -0700, wrote :

A> Robert Heller writes:
A> > What is the magic to set up 'Emacs' style key-bindings in Mozilla (both
A> > Mozilla 1.2 [under RedHat 7.3] and Mozilla 1.7.7 [under White Box Linux
A> > 3.0]).
A> 
A> In the Mozilla suite they should be enabled by default on Linux,
A> so maybe there's some obscure option that's disabling them, as
A> Robert Heller suggests in another posting in this thread.
A> 
A> Firefox has the emacs/readline bindings disabled unless you
A> set GTK to use the key theme named "Emacs". You can probably choose
A> that in some app like gconf-editor, or you might be able to set it
A> by editing ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and adding a line like:
A> gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs"
A> though I've found that to be somewhat inconsistent (some systems
A> may override this setting somewhere else). 

OK, I don't use Gnome (of any flavor) on any of my machines -- I don't
like Gnome (or KDE either).  I use a very vanila fvwm2 setup (with fvwm
in 'MWM' compatibility mode (yes, this dates me to the days of
DECWindows/Motif, but it is what I like).

A> 
A> Some related gtk settings: http://www.gtk.org/gtk-2.0.0-notes.html
A> 
A> http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html#keys
A> describes how to set any custom bindings in mozilla. Firefox uses
A> the same setup but the files may not be in the same place.
A> You'll probably have to explode one of the .jar files to find
A> a [something]HTMLBindings.xml file, edit that to change the
A> key bindings, then re-pack the jar file and restart the browser;
A> I don't think the userHTMLBindings.xml regression (bug 201011)
A> ever got fixed.
A> 
A> 	...Akkana
A>                                                                       

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