Philip Rodrigues wrote: > Hi Larry, > > >> For the twelve years or so that I've been using X, I've had emacs >> keybindings when editing in whichever window manager. I'm giving KDE a >> try, and my biggest frustration is that it seems to default to >> microsoft keybidings (ctrl-a selects all, rather than going to the >> beginning of the line). I've asked on various fora, and done quite a >> few web searches, but all I have found is people asking how to change >> key bindings, but I haven't found any answers. >> >> I thought I had something today when in control center-> >> kde components--> >> component chooser >> > > As you seem to have suggested, you have two options here: either you can use > KDE text editing programs, and try to change their shortcuts to be > emacs-like, or you can just set your file associations in KDE to open emacs > for files that you want to edit. I expect that your best bet is to try > doing both of those. > > To get emacs-like keybindings in KDE apps, you can use control center -> > regional & a11y -> keyboard shortcuts, and especially the "application > shortcuts" tab (where you can set things like Ctrl+A to go to beginning of > line). I thought there used to be a "emacs-like" option there, but it seems > that (in KDE 3.5 at least), you have to set each binding individually... > > For the second thing, you can set the file association for certain file > types to emacs (so when, eg you click on a C file in konqueror, it opens > for editing in emacs). To do this, use control center -> kde components -> > file associations. > > (Just to explain the "embedded text editor" option you mentioned: that's > limited to applications providing KDE-embeddable "KParts", which is why > emacs doesn't appear there). > > Hope that helps, > Philip > As I am an old fart - I use Xemacs, which annoys RMS, but there are no such keybinding problems. dkr ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.