Re: [RP] The bad old days, and the delay after hitting C-t...

[Jonathan Walther]

We discussed doing emacs style keymaps a while ago, but everyones been
too lazy to implement them.  But we agreed that the emacs way is the
right way.  Then you could bind single keys to commands, or bind whole
sequences of keys.

C-x foo

Jonathan

On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 10:47:13AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote:
> In looking for Eclipse in the ports, I noticed evilwm, which shares
> with rp the desire to let users use the keyboard rather than the rat.
> 
> To deal with delay after hitting prefix character, they don't use
> one. Instead, they bind all the commands to C-Alt-<thing> - which
> brings back the bad old days of X10, when the window manager did
> *everything* on C-Alt-<thing>, or some such, and "it took two hands to
> drive the thing". Which was why I used NeWS instead of X10.

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