[Pythonmac-SIG] Key Bindings on cross platform apps.

[Christopher Barker]

Robin Dunn wrote:
> Christopher Barker wrote:
>> On the Mac, the default behavior should be for "command" to do 
>> everything that "control" does on Windows and Linux, and "control" 
>> should do nothing. The alt(option) key should do the same thing as alt 
>> on the other platforms.
>>
>> This seems like it makes for the best compatibility. Is this a standard 
>> and good way to do it?
> 
> A lot of this can be automated in wxPython by following some basic 
> rules.

Thanks Robin, I knew some of that, mostly because a remarkable number of 
apps do "just work". However:

- I wanted to confirm that I had the right goal -- it's obviously the 
way to do it to me, but I might have missed some Mac convention I don't 
know about.

- Peppy is doing some weird things with key bindings, in order to allow 
people to totally customize them, and to allow emacs-style multi-stroke 
bindings -- Ctrl-X Ctrl-O for "file open", for instance. It's now mostly 
working, but not quite, so as I set out to debug, I want to make sure 
I've got the goals right!

Thanks,
  -Chris


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