>"Charlie Zender" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Yes, there are menu shortcuts. When I am typing in the text window
>> of the composer I would simply like to have a full-featured set
>> of keyboard shortcuts, preferably with Emacs bindings.
Garth Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>As for emacs bindings, sorry. A couple of people have
>asked for emacs-like keybindings, but there hasn't been
>a whole lot of support for such a feature.
?? Why do you say that? We've had a fairly full set of emacs bindings
for the last six months, at least. Which bindings do you think mozilla
should support which aren't there?
The reasons Charlie isn't seeing all of them now is that
(1) there are conflicts between the emacs bindings and the xp window
bindings, which is why past Unix versions of Netscape used alt instead
of ctrl for the window-level bindings:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55408
requests that we go back to using alt to resolve the conflict,
but it was closed as WONTFIX; and
(2) a bug slipped in a few weeks before we shipped causing
platform-specific keybindings (i.e. the emacs keybindings) to be
overridden by the xp window bindings, instead of the other way around,
and it was not considered important enough to fix for RTM even though
it broke a lot of the editing bindings (and still isn't fixed, see
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57078 ).
You can set alt to be the modifier for window-level bindings yourself
-- that's what I do. In prefs.js or user.js:
// Motif-style access keys:
user_pref("ui.key.accelKey", 18);
user_pref("ui.key.menuAccessKey", 0);
See http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html for more information.
...Akkana
