Re: Key assignment

[salvador <sal...@in...>]

"Thiago F.G. Albuquerque" wrote:

> On 12/09/01 10:33:27, salvador wrote:
>
> >Yes, but isn't safe. When you do it using the TUI you *must* type the key you want. Under DOS
> you
> >won't get any surprise, the key you type is exactly what the editor gets and the name is quite
> >right. But under other OSs or when you have a non-us keyboard the name could be really
> different or
> >the key could be absent. A good example is Linux, some key combinations doesn't generate any
> code
> >that the editor can understand, that's configurable at OS level (in Debian
> >/etc/console-tools/default.kmap.gz).
> >If you edit a file by hand you can get very bad surprises.
>
> This reminds me of something I saw in the Zed editor. It uses a text file for the key bindings.
> To edit this file, the editor has a comand that switches the editor to "code mode". In this
> mode, for every key you type, it inserts que corresponding code string (escape sequence)
> generated by the key. To exit code mode, you press ESC twice (or something like this, I don't
> remeber).

ESC sequences aren't good, but the idea of inserting the name of the pressed key into the text
sound interesting.

[snip]

> Don't be angry at me, man. I am on your side. I am not complaining about the documentation, I
> think it is very good. I knew that the the keys assigned to menues were configured in
> menubind.smn, I was just making a suggestion. I'm sorry if I didn't sound that way.

Is ok.

SET

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