Re: Wildly different keystroke bindings

Eric G Ortego <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usability.annoyances
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kwan-H/XkN3sKs40TjC5v63tWQwC/[email protected] wrote:

>From: David Vehrs <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: [Annoyances] Wildly different keystroke bindings
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>>OK so you want the same keystrokes to do the same thing in different
>>applications.
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I do. I would like to see vi keys as a setting in almost everything, 
Mozilla's Browser and Mail client , BitchX,  heck I could prolly use a 
vi mouse. Ayone ever see viGore ? Now thats an annoyance!

>Very good point, but not the thrust of my annoyance. In all honesty, I did
>think of this objection to using the same bindings. Which one would take
>precendence? The problem is when it comes to redefing the key sequence, or
>even being able to escape the screen or vi bindings so that the
>application (vi), shell (screen and bash), terminal (xterm, konsole),
>window manager (fluxbox, ice, gnome, kde) and X know what to do with each
>sequence.
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