Re: [ jEdit-users ] Best way to do custom key bindings

[Rich S. <se...@us...>]

Thank you very much for the offer! Unfortunately for me in this case, I'm running Kubuntu (Linux), so I won't be able to take advantage of that utility. 

I've been wanting to try remapping jEdit's keys for a while, and finally, for whatever reason, I found the motivation to do it. It's looking like the block commands in particular don't have matching features in jEdit, so to do this right, I might have to get into some scripting. 

--Rich

On Friday, January 28, 2011 06:16:21 pm maxwell wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:21:12 -0500, Rich Sezov
> <se...@us...> wrote:
> > I should mention that I'm the
> > only weird one who wants WordStar commands, but I want to make it easy
> to
> > configure this for every machine I use. 
> 
> Years ago, someone whose name I've long since lost came out with a small C
> program that redefined keystrokes in MsWindows.  He called it "Diamond",
> and indeed as it came, the Wordstar diamond was hard-coded into the
> program.  Fortunately, it wasn't difficult to modify for my vi-style
> commands (^H = left cursor, ^J = down cursor etc.), and I've used it ever
> since.  It works with almost all programs (it doesn't seem to work with the
> current Windows command prompt).  The only problem is that the control key
> state sometimes (rarely) gets stuck down, so that the next alphabetic
> character I type gets interpreted as a control key.  (The state of the
> control key gets stuck, not the physical key; tapping the control key fixes
> it.)
> 
> The program also has a toggle mechanism, so that ^Q puts the cursor into
> select mode (like typing shift-cursor), and ^C (copy) or ^X (cut), as well
> as another ^Q, takes you out of select mode.  I can reproduce most of the
> cursor movements in X-windows under Linux, but I cannot reproduce this
> toggling mode.  I would love to know how to do that...
> 
> So if you're interested in having the ability to redefine control
> keystrokes as cursor movement in *all* your programs in Windows (not just
> jEdit), I can send you the C code.
> 
>    Mike Maxwell
>    ma...@um...
> 

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