[haiku-development] Re: app_server flag fixes
- From: Chris Roberts <cpr420@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 00:24:15 +0000
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Chris Roberts <cpr420@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> If you ever use the Terminal in Haiku the Alt shortcut style is better
>> because you don't need weird shortcuts like Ctrl-Shift-C to copy or
>> Ctrl-Shift-V to paste (as in the Gnome Terminal.) Just Alt-C or Alt-V
>> and then Ctrl-C or Ctrl-V become control characters in the terminal,
>> as they should be. Of course the same applies on Mac OS X, just with
>> Command instead of Alt (and using a Mac keyboard with Haiku will also
>> give you Command instead of Alt too.)
>>
>
> Except that bash by default uses both Alt and Ctrl key combos. For
> example, delete forward word is usually Alt-D, but terminal consumes
> this combo and forces me to rebind my bash keys in order to use it.
>
> --Chris
>
Just in case I didn't make myself clear. I could argue that all
terminal shortcuts should use a compound key
combination(Alt-Shift-Key) so that all basic key combinations could be
passed through to the shell. There is logic in the way that the gnome
terminal does things.
--Chris
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