[Geany] default keybindings: possible rules

[Enrico Tröger]

On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:12:35 +0100, Nick Treleaven
<nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I think it's time for me to write up what I think are the important 
> rules for default keybindings, following the Geany Philosophy (TM). 
> These are in order of importance.
> 
> 1.a) Avoid Window Manager shortcuts, especially Gnome.
>   b) Avoid shortcuts that don't work on most keyboard layouts.
> 2. Make common things easy to do.
> 3. Use F-keys, PgUp, etc. to make more room for alpha-keybindings.
> 4. Add Shift to keybindings to do a related action.
> 5. Prefer Ctrl-Alt-{x} to Shift-Alt-{x].
> 6. Avoid duplicate keys for the same thing.
> 7. Should be reasonably easy to remember.

Great. 1b will probably be the hardest one to stick to ;-).

> While these aren't ideal for everyone, they should (hopefully) be a 
> good set of rules. IMO functionality should be more important than 
> grouping related things together.
Yes.

Regards,
Enrico

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