In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > Bug #192305 has some interesting discussion about the history of different > keyboard keys, commands and shortcuts. I made the mistake of suggesting > other possible keys... q for quit and b for going back (usually k pages, > where k usually defaults to 1) are in lynx, less, more and likely many other > programs.
Interesting subject. I'd appreciate to see a project of standaraling keyboard shortcuts among all applications which perform common operations (file save, open, cut&paste). Maybe a project on http://www.freestandards.org/ or http://www.linuxbase.org/ And when a consistent keyboard shortcuts scheme will be developed, what about proposing a Debian Policy that all Debian packages must obey these standard? When the upstream authourof a package will not obey it himself, we would make the .deb package to generate a keyboard-shortcuts-standard compilant config file, or compile the package in a modified way if the program does not have configurable keybindings. Another thing I would do: a consistent line-commenting character among all languages/config files. I propose # (because it looks like a small fence, and what is behind the fence is not seen by the application). Like in bash scripts. I would like to see it as a comment character for all config files, and for C, C++, Pascal, Perl, Python, PHP, HTML, XML and all other files. I mean that everything on a line after the # character is a comment. -- Miernik ________________________ jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] __ ICQ: 4004001 ___/__ tel: +48608233394 __/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sing a declaration against US invasion in Iraq: http://www.moveon.org/declaration/
