RE: Serious problems with writing @

[Martin Brecher]

On 2001-10-17 12:24:34 +0100 Nicola Pero <nicola@brainstorm.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> > But one tailing question.... why does GNUstep use ALT for its shortcuts? 
> 
> That is in the nextstep tradition ... it's where - I'm told - Command used
> to be on nextstep workstations.  I personally find it very comfortable,
> more comfortable than Ctrl + q ... 

Yes. It's actually usable - which is most important.

> 
> But there is nothing religious in it! the default configuration is the
> nextish one, but the software supports you configuring the Command to be
> any key on your keyboard (not necessarily an X modifier, I really mean
> *any* key on your keyboard).  You can even have different applications use
> transparently different keys as COMMAND if you want it.

Acknowlegded.

> 
> 
> > I guess that many people will be confused by having to use alt+c now to
> > copy and ctrl+c in other (non-gstep) apps... Of course Command could be
> > bound to CTRL that will break other stuff I guess. Anyway.
> 
> Well, netscape uses Alt + c to copy :-)

Well, netscape on unix is crap anyway :-) (mozilla uses ctrl+c btw :-) )



Anyway, things are working now as supposed - and thats fine.

Thanks,
Martin