From: Xah Lee <xah@xahlee.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs bindings in other programs
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:29:57 -0700 [thread overview]
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On Oct 26, 9:33 am, YSK <koyf...@gmail.com> wrote:
«getting all other programs in my Linux PC to work with Emacs
keybindings (particularly the navigation ones, C-e, C-a, C-n, C-p,
C-k).»
ouch, i don't think that's a good thing to do, once this subject is
thought about.
pls see:
· Why Emacs's Keyboard Shortcuts Are Painful
http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_kb_shortcuts_pain.html
it would be better, to design a ergonomic shortcut for cursor
navigation, then make all your other appl to be like that.
here's my emacs one:
· A Ergonomic Keyboard Shortcut Layout For Emacs
http://xahlee.org/emacs/ergonomic_emacs_keybinding.html
but on your question... if you are on mac os x, it by default supports
emacs's shortcuts for cursor movement.
And, on os x, you can change it system-wide to other shortcuts by
using the
DefaultKeyBinding.dict
see for example:
http://xahlee.org/emacs/DefaultKeyBinding.dict
On linux, am not sure xmodmap would do it. But here's my old xmodmap
for doing dvorak on linux, which i haven't used since 2002.
· Dvorak keymap for xmodmap
http://xahlee.org/PageTwo_dir/Personal_dir/dvorakKeymap.txt
and on Windows i know at least QuickKeys ...
Xah
xah@xahlee.org
http://xahlee.org/
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On Oct 26, 9:33 am, YSK <koyf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I apologize in advance if this is deemed off-topic, but I will find
> people in this newsgroup who share my interest: getting all other
> programs in my Linux PC to work with Emacs keybindings (particularly
> the navigation ones, C-e, C-a, C-n, C-p, C-k).
>
> There is a wonderful Windows tool called XKeymacs that does this for
> Windows apps, and I have been searching (in vain) for something like
> that for Linux (or Xorg more generally). Perhaps someone here will
> have a xmodmap script to do this, or know some obscure tool/workaround
> to make it possible. I am aware of the "gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs""
> workaround for GTK based apps, but programs where I do lots of editing
> (like my Java mail client and OpenOffice) do not obey that file.
>
> I'd appreciate any pointers.
> Thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-27 0:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-26 16:33 Emacs bindings in other programs YSK
2007-10-27 0:29 ` Xah Lee [this message]
2007-10-28 3:55 ` YSK
2007-10-31 0:15 ` John
2007-10-31 7:27 ` Sebastian Tennant
2007-10-31 7:47 ` Martin Rubey
2007-10-31 16:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-31 17:52 ` Martin Rubey
2007-10-31 20:06 ` Joel J. Adamson
2007-11-02 1:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-11-03 0:37 ` Tim X
2007-11-05 23:02 ` David Kastrup
2007-11-23 0:20 ` David Combs
2007-11-23 5:05 ` Tim X
2007-10-31 18:16 ` Amy Templeton
[not found] ` <mailman.2805.1193854394.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-10-31 19:06 ` Rajappa Iyer
2007-10-31 14:12 ` Joel J. Adamson
2007-10-31 14:14 ` Joel J. Adamson
2007-10-31 18:11 ` YSK
2007-10-31 18:15 ` YSK
2007-10-31 19:19 ` Sven Bretfeld
2007-10-31 20:08 ` Joel J. Adamson
2007-12-04 13:08 ` Sebastian Tennant
[not found] ` <mailman.4489.1196774026.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-12-04 14:46 ` Joel J. Adamson
2007-12-04 20:55 ` Sebastian Tennant
2007-12-04 19:56 ` Malte Spiess
2007-12-04 22:02 ` Sebastian Tennant
2007-12-16 19:05 ` David Combs
2007-12-17 20:51 ` Malte Spiess
[not found] ` <mailman.2808.1193858401.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-10-31 20:22 ` YSK
2007-11-01 3:20 ` Alok G. Singh
[not found] ` <mailman.2824.1193886791.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-06 21:31 ` YSK
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