I say stay with ctrl shift. It's the best alternative we have. And I also think you would get quite the uproar changing all the standard console keys too. So many applications in the terminal would have to change.
Just my two cents.
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Jason Brower
On 11/4/06, Matthew Paul Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Nov 2, 2006, at 7:43 PM, Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes wrote:
> ...
> I note that gnome-teminal uses ctrl + T, while epiphny uses ctrl + t to
> create a new tab. These shortcut keys wouldn't have to be equal?
> ...
The keyboard combinations used by graphical applications in Windows and
Gnome, such as Ctrl+T, clash with longstanding keyboard combos used by
many terminal applications for editing commands.
Combination Terminal Gnome
Ctrl+W delete to beginning of previous word close window/tab
Ctrl+T transpose previous two characters new tab
Ctrl+A go to beginning of line select all
Ctrl+C break copy
So because many people using gnome-terminal will expect Ctrl+W to
delete, rather than to close the window, gnome-terminal has to use
Shift+Ctrl+W where other applications use Ctrl+W. The same applies to
Ctrl+T, Ctrl+C, and to other combos for internal consistency.
Mac OS X avoids this problem by using Ctrl+letter for terminal editing
commands, and Command+something for normal commands. And GNUstep avoids
the problem by using Ctrl+letter for terminal editing commands, and
Alt+letter for normal commands.
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