Re: More Keybinding

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:19:26 -0700 (MST)
Robert Bushman <annoyances-xMnNM//[email protected]> insightfully noted:

>The single biggest productivity enhancer for me in
>Linux is keybinding.  I use Gnome and spend most of
>my time in Emacs.  Both allow virtually unlimited
>keybinding - my hands rarely leave the keyboard,
>and hitting a key chord is faster than using an
>analog device to target an icon.
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Have you checked out ratpoison as a wm??  Sounds as if it would fit your needs
well.  You could set up you .ratpoisonrc file to use keystrokes just they way
you want, without all they added baggage of running gnome (you'll get
absolutely NO eye-candy, however ;o) )

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>What I'd like to see is more applications offering
>this kind of tunability.  The best implementation
>I've seen is in the GIMP, which works as follows
>(courtesy: http://iew3.technion.ac.il/CC/Gimp/ )
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Sylpheed employs such functionality as described below as well:
>
>"The second method is interactive and produces a single addition or change
>while working in the GIMP. You do this by placing the mouse cursor over
>the menu item and then typing the desired keystrokes. As you type the
>keystrokes they appear to the right of the menu entry. The next time the
>function is to be used, it can be invoked by the new shortcut."
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Just my US$0.02,
Mike

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