On 07/26/2010 11:13 AM, Gökhan Sever wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu
> <mailto:efir...@hawaii.edu>> wrote:
>
>     A message to the users' list prompted me to begin a tirade about the
>     default key bindings that appeared some time fairly recently--see the
>     bottom of the matplotlibrc_template file.  I really think that having
>     these bindings enabled by default is a substantial mistake, one that
>     will trip up and annoy far more users than it will help.
>
>     I would like to class this as a bug, and remove default bindings from
>     the maintenance branch and the trunk.  Those users who want the bindings
>     can then enable them via their own matplotlibrc files.
>
>     Objections?  Counter-arguments?
>
>     Eric
>
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> I think, placing a global switch like keymap.enable = "no" would resolve
> this issue smoothly. The reason of putting key-bindings in the
> matplotlibrc file is to give users more freedom to create their own
> keymappings. As it is stated in that file, keybindings are easily
> nullified by assigning them to null strings.

Yes, I agree that a single setting to turn the mapping capability on or 
off would make sense.  I strongly believe that by default it should be off.

Eric

>
> PS: Sorry, replying to all.
>
> --
> Gökhan



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