Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 105723
GTk2 text widgets dont do emacs key-bindings.
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:31 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 Galeon/1.3.9 Description of problem: It's impossible to have Emacs keybindings in the evolution mail composer and gedit and all gtk text widget. Maybe this is related with this bug in ximian bugzilla : http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=41187 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gtkhtml3(0:3.0.9-3).i386 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. gedit & 2. Type some things in the composer 3. press Ctrl-a Actual Results: ctrl-a select all text. Expected Results: cursor should be in the beginning of the line "a la emacs". Additional info: The system is a fresh severn2 install. The "Text Editing Shortcuts" is set to 'Emacs' in gnome-keybinding-properties.
Does it work if you upgrade to 1.4.5 in rawhide?
1.4.5 of what ? Evolution ? lftp ftp.redhat.com:/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/SRPMS/SRPMS> ls *1.4.5* -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 122658 Sep 09 20:54 cipe-1.4.5-18.src.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 601065 Sep 09 20:18 compat-slang-1.4.5-6.src.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 612999 Jun 16 14:09 slang-1.4.5-18.1.src.rpm lftp ftp.redhat.com:/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/SRPMS/SRPMS> it's not evolution related. it's gtk-wide..
Of evolution, it may not be pushed yet (should be soon). To set the gtk2 keybindings, go to preferences->keyboard shortcuts and change the type there. But until evolution 1.4.5 and gtkhtml 3.0.9, evolution wouldn't respect it. Also, some other apps have conflicting keybindings (eg, ctrl-a) via the menus that cause emacs keybindings to not be 100% useful everywhere.
I was about to say "i disagree with notabug" but you're right. Menus say 'Select All Ctrl+A". Is there a way to 'override' theese menu shortcuts ? I thought it was the purpose of the /desktop/gnome/interface/can_change_accels gconf key, but cannot figure how to change the shortcuts once it is enabled.