System based key bindings / emacs bindings

[rob]

(I am new to launchpad, this should be an enhancement request not a bug, sorry if I misfiled)

using gconf-editor one can set the bindings for gnome to either "Default" or "Emacs". I happen to really like the emacs bindings for my system:

ctrl+n = down one line
ctrl+p = up one line
ctrl+f = forward one char
ctrl+b = back one char
ctrl+e = go to the end of the line
ctrl+a = go to the begining of the line
ctrl+d = delete the char in front of the cursor

Needless to say, it makes using pyroom difficult because every time I try to go down a line it makes a new document, etc :-/

Anyway, when I set the bindings up for gnome they work correctly in almost all the applications in gnome, but not in pyroom - this is pyroom 0.3.2 so it's not the latest and may have been fixed already.

Is there a way to tie pyroom into the gnome system to use whatever the user has chosen as the binding style?

Cheers

(btw, I love the app aside from this)

[rob (robrohan)]

I've subscribed to the PPA and updated to 0.4 (wow, it looks awesome. I love the themes!)

Using Emacs bindings in 0.4 work well aside from ctrl+p, ctrl+n, and ctrl+h.

ctrl+b = back = ok
ctrl+f = forwards = ok
ctrl+e = end of line = ok
ctrl+a = start of line = ok
ctrl+h = delete char behind cursor = help screen
ctrl+d = delete char in front of cursor = ok
ctrl+n = next line = new document
ctrl+p = previous line = preference pane

If I can figure out how to checkout the code and figure out the code it self, I'll try to submit a patch

[Florian Heinle (tiax)]

Hi,

ctrl+p (preferences) ctrl+n (new document) and ctrl+h (help window) are default keybindings already in use by PyRoom features.

While offering configurable key bindings would make PyRoom configuration much less simple, we could add that option with a plugin.