I agree managing keybindings across browsers and across OS's is hard - however my main suggestions below just involve altering the letters used in combination with Esc, not changing the basic key combinations.
My mentioning Ctrl+ use in Gmail was intended just as a heads up that this might be worth investigating sometime in the future ... J702? ;-). On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 4:34 PM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: > My knowledge with jhs is almost empty, but I imagine jhs has already gotten > a hard time to keep keybindings work across different browsers. JGTK is > fortunate here. > > Пнд, 07 Фев 2011, Ric Tikkanz писал(а): >> I agree that making keyboard mappings user-configurable is sensible. >> However IMO, the default (Out-of-the-Box) configuration should as >> similar as possible between the various IDEs. >> >> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 4:15 PM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Ideally keybinding should be user configurable because it is a matter of >> > personal preference, eg. a certain key chord can be awkward to reach in >> > some keyboard mappings. >> > >> > J701 is now a stable release albeit being crude, so that Jbeta forum can >> > now take a break. >> > >> > Пнд, 07 Фев 2011, Ric Tikkanz писал(а): >> >> I discovered that the Ctrl+j shortcut (same as J602) works to advance >> >> from topic to topic but this probably needs to be made more >> >> discoverable (Help|Studio|Advance ?). >> >> >> >> Ideally the default JHS and Gtk IDE shortcuts for advancing in a lab >> >> (and other common things) should use the same letter - currently JHS >> >> is (Esc,a) while Gtk IDE is (Ctrl+j). >> >> JHS already uses (Esc,j) to switch to the jijx window, and Gtk IDE >> >> already uses (Ctrl+a) as "select all" - a fairly widely-used standard >> >> (browsers, editors). >> >> >> >> Currently: >> >> JHS Gtk >> >> Switch to jijx/Term j T >> >> Switch to jijs/Edit J M >> >> Advance lab topic a j >> >> >> >> >> >> Proposed: >> >> JHS Gtk >> >> Switch to jijx/Term j j >> >> Switch to jijs/Edit J J >> >> Advance lab topic t t >> >> >> >> BTW, as I write this in my browser using Google mail, I notice that >> >> they have successfully managed to use the standard Ctrl+ shortcuts >> >> that we are used to in desktop apps (i.e. Ctrl+s saves my draft, >> >> Ctrl+B for bold etc.). It may therefore be possible to emulate what >> >> they've done in JHS at some stage? >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > >> > -- >> > regards, >> > ==================================================== >> > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 >> > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > -- > regards, > ==================================================== > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
