[Geany] default keybindings, revisited

[Enrico Tröger]

On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 16:57:51 -0400, "John Gabriele" <jmg3000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 9/5/07, Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
> > On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:37:40 +0100, Nick Treleaven
> > <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > By the way, as long as we're revisiting keyboard shortcuts,
> > > > I think it makes more sense to use Ctrl-{Up,Down} to go up
> > > > and down by paragraph (instead of Ctrl-[ and Ctrl-], which I
> > > > just now notice aren't listed in the "Help --> Keyboard
> > > > Shortcuts" dialog).
> > >
> > > (That's because they're fixed keybindings.)
> >
> > "Unfixed"
> 
> Heh. :)
> 
> > in SVN r1854. They are now changeable.
> 
> This is very nice. I just set scroll up-/down-by-line to Alt-{Up,Down}
> and it feels very natural for Geany (IMO). Ctrl for moving the cursor,
> Alt for moving the GUI works well for me, thanks.
> 
> In fact, while you're at it, if you want to round out the key combos,
> you might also consider adding commands to scroll the window
> horizontally. With Alt-{Left,Right} attached to those commands, they'd
> go well with Alt-{Up,Down} for moving the view around in 2 dimensions.
Nice idea. The question is whether it is an often enough used feature
to add two more keybindings for it. Technically, it isn't a problem.

> > I don't like to use Ctrl-{Up,Down} for scrolling by paragraphs
> > because I guess it's more rarely used in Geany than e.g. scrolling
> > by lines but at least, now it is user configurable.
> 
> I'm sorry, I'm confused. I see you just enabled users to change key
> combos for scrolling the window line-by-line, which is very nice
> (thanks!). Did you also enable users to configure which keys do
> up-/down-by-paragraph? Note, I'm happy using Ctrl-[ and Ctrl-], and
No.

> I'm guessing most american/english users are happy too -- I only
> mention options about changing those since (A) I thought
> Ctrl-{Up,Down} would be more consistent, and (B) you mentioned they
> were difficult to hit on a german keyboard.
Yes. Changing them would mean to add again two additional keybindings.

Regards,
Enrico

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