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Re: unhelpful menu keybinding notes
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: unhelpful menu keybinding notes |
Date: |
Mon, 17 Apr 2006 10:28:34 +0300 |
> From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:36:25 +0900
>
> In the GTK version of emacs, the keybinding notes for the "Edit > Cut"
> and "Edit > Copy" menu entries say "<cut>" and "<copy>" respectively.
>
> Those names don't seem very useful to me, as most keyboards don't have
> such keys; also they don't help teach the real Emacs bindings.
> Shouldn't those just say "C-w" and "M-w" ?
This happens to come up periodically; I remember at least 2
discussions in the past. <cut> and <copy> are Sun keyboard's keys,
and IIRC the problem is we don't have any good way to specify, for a
command that has several keybindings, which one gets mentioned in the
menu. I think we currently display the last one bound.
Also, please note that, at least by default on GUI displays, these
menu items don't invoke the same functions as C-w and M-w (because
x-win.el turns on menu-bar-enable-clipboard).
- unhelpful menu keybinding notes, Miles Bader, 2006/04/16
- Re: unhelpful menu keybinding notes, Lennart Borgman, 2006/04/17
- Re: unhelpful menu keybinding notes,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: unhelpful menu keybinding notes, Lennart Borgman, 2006/04/17
- Re: unhelpful menu keybinding notes, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/04/17
- Re: unhelpful menu keybinding notes, David Kastrup, 2006/04/17
- RE: unhelpful menu keybinding notes, Drew Adams, 2006/04/17
- Re: unhelpful menu keybinding notes, Stefan Monnier, 2006/04/17
- RE: unhelpful menu keybinding notes, Drew Adams, 2006/04/17
- Re: unhelpful menu keybinding notes, Richard Stallman, 2006/04/17
- Re: unhelpful menu keybinding notes, Richard Stallman, 2006/04/17
- Re: unhelpful menu keybinding notes, Lennart Borgman, 2006/04/17