Re: [Ebib-users] non-standard keybindings

[Joost K. <joo...@fa...>]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 07:26:23PM +0000, Joe Corneli wrote:
> It's interesting that the C-c C-c keystroke seems so "standard" to me
> despite the rule you mentioned!  Partly because of its common meaning
> in major modes like mail-mode (with a parallel in shell-mode)

yes, in major modes, it's ok to bind C-c C-c.

> -- and
> partly because not everyone follows the convention... For example
> w3m-form-input-textarea-set, which is in w3m-form-input-textarea-mode
> (minor mode), has the binding C-c C-c.
> 
> Similarly the command w3-do-text-entry from w3, which is bound in the
> following silly way:
> 
>     (switch-to-buffer-other-window buff)
>     (indented-text-mode)
>     [...]
>     (message "Press C-c C-c when finished with text entry.")
>     (local-set-key "\C-c\C-c" 'w3-finish-text-entry)
> 
> ("The binding goes in the current buffer's local map, which in most
> cases is shared with all other buffers in the same major mode." --
> oops!)

makes me wonder why they don't just bind it in w3m-form-input-textarea-mode... 

> All that aside, another idea to consider would be to change Ebib-entry
> major mode so that entries can be edited directly in that the
> entry-browsing screen instead of in a separate window.  What do you
> think of this thought?

that would be great, actually. i've already considered doing this myself,
thinking i could use the same library that emacs' customize interface uses
(which defines a bunch of widgets for text input fields) but it turned out that
once a buffer is created with these widgets, it cannot be recreated with another
set of widgets.

i never really looked at other ways of doing this, but if you have some idea,
i'd be all ears. :-)


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Joost Kremers
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