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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: better late than never, Standardized editing...
From:       Peter Silva <peter.silva () videotron ! ca>
Date:       1998-07-11 16:50:57
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Timothy Whitfield wrote:
> 
> I just wanted to say that I did a complete reinstall from cvs, post pre-1.0 and
> everything seems to be working better than ever on Redhat 5.0 system.  I also
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> managed to finally install koffice2 and it works as well, although I seem to be
> missing micod???  There were some problems with the build in that I had to
> comment out chart.h, compile until error, uncomment it, recompile, comment out
> kpresenter.h, compile until error, uncomment it, recompile.  But then it all
> worked fine.  Koffice is very impressive by the way.
> 

Wow! that gives me enough courage to try and get all that running too...

> I wanted to ask while I have the chance, I noticed that the legendary emacs is
> used for editing scripts in kspread, but what I am curious about is the fact
> that my emacs has now taken on the form of a kde program, not that that is a
> bad thing, but it stunned me. 


I hadn't detected a real commitment in KDE to emacs as an editor
until now.  It seems a bit inconsistent.  In netscape, I can use emacs
bindings to, say, kill-to-eol, (<Ctrl>-K), but not in kfm.  I tried
<Ctrl>-<Del>
that didn't work either.  Is this for "global shortcut" reasons?  I
would
think such keys would be nice in any editing field.

I thought I was a very rare bird: a vi worshipper.  I don't care what
the
editor's called, just let me keep my hands over the keyboard (as opposed
to off to the right), and give me that trusty escape key.  I have been
for 
some time dreaming the equivalent of a bash style "set -o vi" setting
for
KDE, to let have vi style editing in all text input dialogs, 
and kedit as well.  OK, so I never said I was normal...

I imagine one could set a kcontrol desktop option, like

	editing style:   vi  / emacs  / Wordstar-Borland-MS-PC
					(things like <Ctrl-K><Ctrl-C>, <Ctrl>-<Del>)

and have the bindings propagated to all the dialogs.  
I don't know how this would be done.  I would imagine having
a kcmkeyboard application, have the preferences
in this module, have all QT/Kdialogs get their editing bindings from
here.  
People could add their own keyboard customizations,  like using a 
specific key as a dead key for accents, or global 
shortcuts.  It would be especially neat if the kikbd and kcminput
and this stuff were combined into one kcminput module, so that
all keyboard settings would be in one place.

I imagine QT can handle this, because they likely use different editing
bindings on NT/MAC and unix.  Would this be a good thing? 


-- 
Peter

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