[Geany] tuning Geany key combos

Michael Comperchio mcmprch at xxxxx
Tue Jul 3 17:33:41 UTC 2007


Nick Treleaven wrote:
> On 06/29/2007 04:48:21 PM, Michael Comperchio wrote:
>> I like geany and use it on both windows and Linux for pretty much all 
>> my miscellaneous editting. I've been following this thread and here's 
>> my two cents. Many years ago when I first started writing GUI code 
>> (OS/2...late 80's) we were required to adhere to CUA standards. These 
>> have since become pretty much de-facto among GUI applications. My 
>> fingers just seem to do them. Seaching on WikiPedia gave me this list 
>> of keystrokes :
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_keyboard_shortcuts
>>
>> Everyone has their own favorites, or wants, but it makes sense in the 
>> bigger picture to have default values that conform, new users are 
>> likely to try a program with non-standard keys, and discard it as 
>> having too steep a learning curve otherwise.
>>
> I agree. I think Geany basically conforms with that table where 
> possible, except:
> help is ctrl-h instead of f1
> rEplace is ctrl-e instead of ctrl-h
>
> I don't mind changing these if most people prefer them.
>
> Regards,
> Nick
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Funny you should mention that....I change my keybindings to that.... ^H

Michael



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