<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/27/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kurt B. Kaiser</b> <<a href="mailto:kbk@shore.net">kbk@shore.net</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">"Tal Einat" <<a href="mailto:taleinat@gmail.com">taleinat@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br><br>> IDLE currently only supports basic key bindings, but not Emacs-like
<br>> keybings which consist of sequences of several keys (such as <Ctrl-x><br>> <Ctrl-s>, or C-x C-s in Emacs key-binding syntax).<br>><br>> Has any work been done to add support for these kind of bindings in
<br>> IDLE?<br><br>Actually, the "Classic Unix" keybinding does support that. The<br>implementation is rather subtle. In config-keybindings.def, note the<br>'do-nothing' and 'save-window' bindings. Note in the latter there is no
<br>space between the two bindings, that syntax indicates a combination.</blockquote>
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<div>Hmm... Tricky stuff! Is this a built-in feature of Tk key bindings?</div><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">><br>> Personally, I feel adding support for Emacs-like bindings (the simpler<br>> ones) will be a welcome feature for many Emacs users, and can help
<br>> widen our user base.<br><br>Right. The 'classic' set isn't especially emacsish (emacish?). I've<br>been thinking about a new binding set, 'IDLE Emacs'. Personally, I<br>use a modification of 'IDLE Classic Unix'.
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<div>Well then - what are we waiting for? ... I'm on it :)</div></div>