[haiku-development] Re: Keymaps and Command key

  • From: "Rene Gollent" <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:38:09 -0500

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 7:18 PM, John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Alt mode by default. Here is the problem with ctrl mode, the terminal
> uses special control characters such as ctrl-c and ctrl-z for stop and
> suspend. Of course in control mode ctrl-c is used to copy and ctrl-z
> is used for undo. So what do you do if you want to copy from the
> terminal? In alt mode there isn't a problem. alt-c and alt-z are
> available.

+1. Despite what the default shortcut might be elsewhere, I've still
always felt most comfortable with alt as shortcut key myself, and this
is another good reason for it.

Regards,

Rene

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