Re: [Texmacs-dev] Logical cursor movement

[Stéphane Payrard]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 10:25:04AM +0200, David Allouche wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 07:06:12PM +0200, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> >
> > Yes, although I am not yet sure about which modifier keys to use.
> > Indeed, there are many types of directional actions,
> > such as inserting arguments, rows or columns, alignment of cells,
> > or redimensioning sizes of pictures and white space.
> > We have to find out which ones are used most frequently,
> > because these will get the C-, A- and M- prefixes.
> > Others will have to do with A-C-, M-C-, M-A-, etc.
> > I personally think that logical cursor movement of
> > the first type will not be used very much.
> 
> I currently have no willingness to get in that discussion, but I just
> want to drop a word to say "do not use A-C and M-C modifiers"!
> 
> Personally, I use these modifiers combinations for global bindings in
> XFree. For example I use C-A arrows to change workspaces, C-A-m to
> minimize a window, not even speaking of the system meaning of C-A-Fx
> keys. I am sure that many people use these keys in a similar fashion.
> 
> And for M-C, I just need to recall the generalized confusion between
> Alt and Meta key.
> 
> You have to be more careful in letting TeXmacs cooperate with its
> environment. The obnoxious wait window is a typical example.

I agree 100% with David here. TeXmacs is just one tool among
other even if dear to us.

I am all for a modal interface (but clearly so) to avoid to step on
other ressources like window manager bindings.  I know the use of
modal interface is very debatable and some people are religious
against it. So Texmacs must be minimally usable in the default mode.


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