From: Masatsugu Nagata (nagata@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp)
Date: 10 Mar 01, 00:41 EST
From: Masatsugu Nagata <nagata@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> Subject: Keys bounded to option-<key> Martin Girschick wrote: > With my basic alpha-knowledge I was able to extract the following command: [snip] > As far as I can see is <o> for the left and <e> for the right > option-key. > No, <e> is supposed to be the Esc (escape) key, which should be near the top-left corner of your keyboard. Bind 'b' <e> backwardWord means that you press the Esc key, release the Esc key, and then press the B key, then the cursor moves backward-word. Bind '>' <se> endOfBuffer means that you press the Esc key, release the Esc key, and then press the Shift key and keeping the Shift key pressed down and press also the > key (this is so because on the U.S. keyboard '>' is Shift-'.') Those escape-key combinations are frequently used, important key combinations to many users, especially users who are used to Emacs. Please don't remove those escape-key combination key bindings. On the other hand, I fully agree that we should remove all those <o> bindings, that is, the option-key bindings. (On my Apple Extended U.S. keyboard, both of the left-option-key and the right-option-key activate follows the 'Bind <o>' definition. Are the left and right option keys really distinguished?) > And another thing (should be bug-filled am I right?) The > forward-delete-key doesn't work in dialogs. > Alpha cannot control the function inside dialogs' editText fields, which is directly controlled by the Mac OS System's dialog manager. You can use Fabrizio Oddone's freeware 'Forward Delete' System Extension or Alex Levi Montalcini's shareware 'Better Edit Keys' Control Panel, which can enable the forward-delete-key (and, other keys, too, with Better Edit Keys) in System's text engine (that's used in dialogs' editText fields). http://www.kagi.com/authors/fab/fwddel.html http://www.montalcini.com/ http://www.montalcini.com/binhex/better-edit-keys-11.hqx Hope this helps. Mark -- Mark Nagata mailto:nagata@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp _______________________________________________ AlphaTcl-developers mailing list AlphaTcl-developers@lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alphatcl-developers