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Date:      Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:41:07 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Richard Kuhns <rjk@wintek.com>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gnome 2.8 and emacs keybindings
Message-ID:  <1100212867.41670.4.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <4193A740.6020507@wintek.com>
References:  <20041111162858.6D51E5D09@ptavv.es.net> <4193A740.6020507@wintek.com>

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On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 12:54 -0500, Richard Kuhns wrote:
> Kevin Oberman wrote:
> ...
> > I don't think he means the key-bindings used by Emacs, but the key
> > bindings used by Gnome widgets that accept text. For doing text editing
> > in these widgets, you have a set of default Gnome binding, but those wh=
o
> > normally use a particular editor, such as Emacs, vim, or vi, can work
> > better if they can use the same key binding that are defaults in their
> > normal editor.=20
>=20
> Yes, that's what I meant. Sorry, I should have been clearer.
>=20
> The emacs key-bindings (particularly for moving around) are pretty much=20
> hard-wired into my fingers...

If you are using the GNOME desktop, and you want to enable Emacs
keybindings, you have to use gconf-editor to
set /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme to "Emacs".

Joe

> 	- Rich
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