Re: [E-devel] e16 unchangeable keybindings

[Kim W. <ki...@wo...>]

Greg Roth wrote:
> I just spent an hour after updating to e16.8 trying to figure out how to
> disable the ctrl-alt-a default behavior. I finally found it in the
> /usr/share/e16/config/bindings.cfg under a heading explaining how they
> are so well hidden to keep users from accidentally deleting them.
> 
> This frustrated me. I use enlightenment because it is so configurable
> and gives me the respect that I know what I'm doing and I'm not going to
> shoot myself in to foot so I can customize it to the teeth. This secret,
> almost immutable binding seems to contradict that notion.
> 
> First, is a keybinding to display everything really that necessary? I've
> gone quite well without it for years.
> Second, the keybinding overshadows a particularly useful emacs operation
> that jumps to the beginning of a c-function. I could remap the emacs
> command, but I'd rather do away with the enlightenment command I don't use.
> Finally, yet again, is it really wise to force such keystrokes onto
> users whether they need them or not? I certainly don't think so.
> 
> Incidentally, disabling this binding in the aforementioned file does
> work, but will likely be overwritten the next time I update.
> 
I'm not aware of the history behind why there are these "unchangable"
key bindings. I fact, I'm not even sure I like them.
However, they have been there "forever", at least back to 0.16.5.
The only thing that has changed is the mouse/keybinding configuration
file. So, I guess you must have made this tweak once before.

Reading README-0.16.8 might have saved you about an hour.

/Kim