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Emacs-style key bindings
Authored by: sjk on Sep 20, '05 06:29:39PM
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Text System Defaults and Key Bindings

The Key Bindings section in particular. Yet another reason to prefer Cocoa apps. :-)

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key bindings vs. accesskeys
Authored by: sjk on Sep 20, '05 06:53:04PM

Oh, I forgot to mention that accesskey support in Safari (et.al.) uses a "control-" character prefix that can annoyingly interfere with your preferred Emacs-style key bindings. A common example is to type control-p during text input on some forum and have it activate the accesskey for "preview post" instead of moving the input cursor to the previous line. And sometimes an accesskey can accidentally invoke the "submit post" function, which can be embarrassing (or worse) when you can't delete or edit such a post.

I've argued that the choice to use the control key as the accesskey prefix on OS X is a poor one because of that issue, especially since the Cocoa bindings predate it. Until there's a user-defined accesskey prefix (or some other fix) my workaround for that infuriating conflict is a PithHelmet machete script that kills all accesskeys in Safari.



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