On Dec 12, 2008, at 10:31 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Christopher Menzel wrote:
I'm using LyX 1.6 in a Linux virtual machine under OS X which uses
the option key as the alt key. (I also use the OS X version, of
course.) I would like to have as many Emacs keybindings as
possible in LyX, in particular, Alt-f to move forward by word, Alt-
d to delete by word. However, even though I have defined my
desired keybindings in the emacs.bind file, with the OS X keyboard,
Alt-f still brings up the File menu and Alt-d the Document menu.
So, question: Is it possible to override this behavior, either in a
LyX config file or some other config file, so that I can get the
Emacsy behavior I long for?
In the <lyx>/Resources/ui folder, try editing stdmenus.inc.
That is so totally the right answer! The trick was simply to edit the
lines
Submenu "File|F" "file"
Submenu "Document|D" "document"
to
Submenu "File|" "file"
Submenu "Document|" "document"
Just for clarification, since I'm actually running Linux natively in a
virtual machine under OS X -- via Sun's excellent, cost-free VM
software VirtualBox (http://virtualbox.org) -- I needed to edit the
stdmenus.inc file for the *Linux* version of LyX, which was found in /
usr/share/lyx/ui.
Thanks again.
-chris
