Benoit St-Pierre wrote:

Hi!

> As I see it now, there would be a need for Scid GUI to behave like a
> normal application.

But it does. Some keystrokes just don't make sense in another 
applications while "usual" keystrokes don't make sense in Scid. (Think 
of Ctrl-A to add a variation vs. mark all)

> Its GUI must standardize with the others, like
> the strange context-dependent keystrokes.

?

> No doubt about that.  But is that difficult to change that in Tcl/Tk?

No. It's not a Tcl/Tk issue.

> Alex suggests delving into .Xdefaults.

Not for keystrokes, just for colouring etc. and only in case you want to 
make a bunch of apps to look more like the rest of your desktop. Its not 
even Scid specific.

> PS:  The reference to Fortran was a joke.  I am quite agnostic
> regarding philosophies behind programming languages.

;) Its not a philosophy, Fortran is "just" a number cruncher. And what a 
number cruncher. :)

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