GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 104117
pref to enable Emacs-style shortcuts not obvious
Last modified: 2007-05-31 13:54:38 UTC
It seems it is possible to make Nautilus's keyboard shortcuts behave substantially more like Emacs by changing the "Text editing shortcuts" value in the GNOME "Preferences" -> "Keyboard Shortcuts" preference dialog, yet there is nothing in this dialog to suggest this: all I see at the top level is "Desktop" and "Window Management", and none of these either mention Nautilus, text editing, or the expected keys to achieve these actions. I would expect to see something like: (GNOME Default shortcuts mode) Text Editing - Go to beginning of line <Home> - Go to end of line <End> - ... (Emacs shortcuts mode) Text Editing - Go to beginning of line <Control>a - Go to end of line <Control>e - ... Sorry if this isn't strictly a Nautilus bug; it's where I found it, and I couldn't find a more appropriate category.
moving to control center
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 98176 ***
How is this a dupe? This bug is saying more information needs to appear in the keyboard shortcuts preferences dialog; the other bug is saying the C-a keybinding is broken.
I didn't read it carefully :/ Usability-maint, any comments?
Michael, isn't this what "Text editing shortcuts" is supposed to do?
I don't have easy access to the dialog right now, but from memory: Yes, the text-editing shortcuts item changes the behavior, however it is not initially clear that it will do so, as there are no entries lower down to suggest that such commands as "go to beginning of line" are indeed changeable. There should be entries lower down for every action whose keybinding can be changed so that it is apparent that it can. Make sense?
Yes, I think I agree. We should really allow remmapping of all (desktop global) shortcuts if we allow any... it is confusing to see only some.
Even if it was non-editable, a list of all the keybdindings in the selected keyboard 'theme' would be as a useful bit of self-documentation. If I select the Emacs theme, I have no idea which Emacs keybindings are implemented and which aren't, and AFAIK the user guide doesn't give a list. (Perhaps it should?)
The User Guide doesn't list GNOME default or Emacs-type keyboard shortcuts. If we need a list of these shortcuts in the UG, I'd probably put them in an Appendix. I like Calum's suggestion that they be displayed in the Keyboard Shortcuts preference tool, even if the individual shortcuts are non-editable.
Not that this isn't a good idea, but the Emacs keybinding option has been removed.
Out of curiousity, why has the preferences option for Emacs-style bindings been removed?
is that a documentation issue ? need to be reassigned to gnome-user-guide ?
No, the bug is requesting that the emacs keybinding theme selection be restored, right? I certainly want to see it restored. Looking at the gnome on-line docs, the HIG refers to the keybinding preferences to enable the emacs theme.
(In reply to comment #12) > Out of curiousity, why has the preferences option for Emacs-style bindings been > removed? Because practically no-one used it. See the discussion in bug 99529. You can still set the key theme using /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme