> On 12.12.2010 18:24, Greg Ercolano wrote: > > > Or just stick with 'default' and abandon emacs style edit keys > > altogether. > > +1 > > why? I believe that "emacs style edit keys" is something for > software developers, but software is /written/ for /users/. > > Personally I never used emacs (although I've been a software > developer all the time), and I simply don't know them. Most, > if not all users of our commercial apps, won't know them as > well, and thus they may be surprised if they hit a key that > they are used to do something and experience something else. > > One example is CTRL/A: fortunately moving the cursor to the > beginning of the text is only a little annoying, but there may > be keys combinations that do something "disastrous" that is > not expected by the user. > > Albrecht
+1 to abandon emacs style edits. The "disatrous" combination exists: ctrl-U, expected to move to the end of the line, and instead deletes everything. _______________________________________________ fltk-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk-dev
