GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 164410
True Emacs shortcuts
Last modified: 2005-01-19 10:39:01 UTC
As it is now, GEdit have some Emacs shortcuts like C-x C-s (save), but eg. C-w (cut) closes the window, as C-w is the Gnome shortcut for close window. So I would like to suggest an option for true Emacs navigation for GEdit that overwrites the default Gnome shortcuts.
All applications which support cut, copy and paste use hot keys C-x, C-s and C-v so do you mean that all are using Some Emacs short cuts. Or can we restate that as Emacs is using some short cuts of Gnome. Gedit also a GNOME component. Why to make it as separate from other components of Gnome. Is there any reason behind changing the short cuts?
I think when a user sets Gnome to use Emacs shortcuts it should be the real Emacs shortcuts, so C-w cuts and M-w copies etc. Of course Emacs have way more features than eg. GEdit, but all the features that GEdit have, do I think should have the Emacs shortcuts, when Gnome is set to use the Emacs shortcuts. As Emacs have features for almost every thinkable combination of key strokes, it will overlap the Gnome shortcuts, like the C-w. So in order for the Gnome shortcuts not be depricated in every application, I only think the Emacs shortcuts should effect GEdit, forms, and text fields in general.
I think this is substatially a dup of http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150059: the propblem is that some keybindings come from gtk etc (for instance Select All, or Close window, etc) and these change properly when a user changes his keybindings, however when building the menu in the app we are also required to specify the keyboard shortcut again and this overrides the others bindings and it doesn't reflects global settings. As I said in the other bug, I really don't know a way out of this problem :( *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 150059 ***