Re: [wmii] new (consistent) keybindings in the hg repo

From: Anselm R. Garbe <garbeam_AT_wmii.de>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 14:28:02 +0200

On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 02:12:39PM +0200, Stefan Tibus wrote:
> I like the fact the keybindings have been restructured, but of
> course some of them will always interfere.
> The bindings used to start programs certainly differ by taste,
> e.g. whether its "t" as "terminal" or "x" as "xterm". Actually
> I use "rxvt" and "<Return>". Maybe this is could become a default
> not interfering with anything else.

't'ag has more precendence than 't'erminal in the wmii world.

> Also I don't like the use of letters as directions. I like the
> cursor keys much more, that's they're there for. So I'd suggest
> to define variables $WESTKEY etc. and use them consistently.
> They may be kept as h,l,j,k by default, but this makes changing
> to cursor keys a lot easier. (One could in principle use variables
> for everything, but I don't vote for this, just in this case I
> believe this makes sense, since they're used 3 times.)

That is more cumbersome than doing :%s/-j/-Down/g in vi.

Regards,

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