Re: Wildly different keystroke bindings
David Vehrs <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.usability.annoyances |
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On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 03:34:59PM -0400, kwan-H/XkN3sKs40TjC5v63tWQwC/[email protected] wrote: > Here's the first on my list: > > This is not specific to Linux (many other Unices suffer the same problem), > but one of my larger annoyances are the wildly different and wonderfully > inventive keystroke combinations used to do similar things. OK so you want the same keystrokes to do the same thing in different applications. > For example, I use screen and vi quite often. screen uses "ctrl-A [TAB]" > to switch between window regions. vi uses "ctrl-w h|j|k|l" to do the same. > Links uses tab. Other apps use alt-tab, or ctrl-p (previous). > > Inside X, default bindings to switch workspaces vary from window manager > to window manager. Some use Alt-F#, others CTL-#, etc.. > > Now I understand *why* the keystrokes are different -- each application > has different heritage -- but the main annoyance is that there's no simple > method to change them all. Some require xmodmap settings, others need to > use the wm config, others are set by exporting a shell var, etc.. OK, lets say that you're using Vi in Screen. Which keystroke do you use for which application? Or lets say I'm using Vi in my window manager,.... Not all key differences are because of heritage, some are different so that multiple applications can work at the same time. Dave V. -- David E Vehrs, System Engineer Aspen Systems [email protected] 3900 Youngfield Street Tel: +01 303 431 4606 Wheat Ridge CO 80033, USA Fax: +01 303 431 7196 http://www.aspsys.com