[haiku-development] Re: Word-wise jumping with CTRL in BTextView
- From: John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 14:29:47 -0500
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Humdinger <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hullo!
>
> Oliver recently changed the word-wise jumping from CMD to CTRL, see
> [1].
>
> I'm not sure I'm fond of it. In my mind CMD is used to issue app
> specific commands. Controling the cursor position seems to be a fine
> job for CTRL. There's also fewer chances to clash with apps' commands,
> like currently in Mail. If Web+ should gain word-wise jumping (a feature
> I sorely miss), it'll clash with going back/forward in history. Terminal
> is now inconsistent as it's still using CTRL+cursor.
>
> What were the reasons for this change, and should it maybe be reverted?
I assume this would also break Command+shift+left and right switching
between channels in Vision as well. Control seems like a fine key for
word-wise navigation. Command +arrows should do line wise navigation,
same as home and end, if anything.
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