[Geany] tuning Geany key combos
Michael Comperchio
mcmprch at xxxxx
Thu Jul 5 19:58:05 UTC 2007
Enrico Tröger wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 15:09:58 -0400, "John Gabriele" <jmg3000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>> On 7/5/07, Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 12:47:30 -0400, "John Gabriele"
>>> <jmg3000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>>> [snip]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> * Shift-Alt-L to select line
>>>>>>
>>>>> Shift-Alt-L is currently used a "Line Delete" by Scintilla, but
>>>>> I suggest to remove the Line Delete feature (because of
>>>>> probably rare usage) and use Shift-Alt-L for select line.
>>>>>
>>>> Actually, that's Shift-Ctrl-L to delete current line, not
>>>> Shift-Alt-L
>>>>
>>> Oops, sorry.
>>>
>>>
>>>> (and Ctrl-L cuts the line). Deleting (or else cutting) the current
>>>> line is very handy, IMO. Though I'm used to both GNU Emacs and GNU
>>>> nano using Ctrl-K for it. Ctrl-L seems more like it should be "go
>>>> to
>>>>
>>> The Gnome HIG says in Table 10.4 "Emacs-style navigation keys for
>>> widgets" Ctrl-U for delete current line.
>>>
>> That's odd. Might be an error. In Emacs, Ctrl-U is a prefix key -- you
>>
> Probably, just wanted to mention it.
>
>
>>> It really seems there is no sane way to provide defaults to make all
>>> happy. Sigh.
>>> But we could bind Delete line or Cut line to Ctrl-K (and the other
>>> one to Ctrl-Shift-K or Ctrl-Alt-K, I don't care) and bind Go to
>>> line to Ctrl -L. What do you think?
>>>
>> That sounds preferable and easy to remember to me (delete line:
>> Ctrl-K, cut line: Shift-Ctrl-K, go to line: Ctrl-L).
>>
> Ok, I'll do it tomorrow if nobody complains ;-).
>
>
>>>> Incidentally, I don't see "delete current line" (or "cut current
>>>> line") listed in Help --> Keyboard shortcuts, or in Edit -->
>>>> Preferences --> Keybindings. I guess those 2 places are only for
>>>> Geany-specific (outside of Scintilla defaults) bindings?
>>>>
>>> Yes. Ctrl-L is a Scintilla binding but could be rebind by Geany (as
>>> we have already done for example for Ctrl-A).
>>>
>> I see that you can steal a key-binding from Scintilla, and have Geany
>> override it. But, can you re-bind some other key to a
>> Scintilla-specific command, such as "delete line" or "cut line"? I
>>
> Yes, no problem.
>
>
>> don't see either of those listed in Preferences --> Keybindings.
>>
> Not yet ;-). I'll add them tomorrow together with the Line transpose
> feature which is currently bound to Ctrl-T (by Scintilla). I think we
> keep this default but make it changeable through Geany.
>
> Regards,
> Enrico
>
>
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Well if we're really wishing.... I'd love to have the old BRIEF
keybindings....
Alt-d - delete line
Alk-k - Delete to end of line
:)
Michael
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