[ksh93-integration-discuss] Re: /etc/ksh.kshrc for ksh93 [PSARC/2006/587 Timeout: 10/24/2006]

[Richard Lowe]

Roland Mainz wrote:
> Richard Lowe wrote:
>> Joseph Kowalski wrote:
>>>> gmacs is considered an intuitive beginner's editing mode.  It is the
>>>> default editing mode in bash and more or less matches the common input
>>>> mode of various GUI toolkits and desktops, including Gnome/GTK+,
>>>> KDE/Qt, CDE/Motif, Mozilla/XULRunner/Gecko, JAVA, and Xaw/Xaw3D.
>> Gnome/GTK default to win32-style C-v, C-x, C-c these days, where C-a is
>> "select all", not the almost-emacs readline-like editing keys.
>>
>> Mozilla and friends, as far as I know use whatever the toolkit they are
>> making use of use (under Solaris, at least, they follow the GNOME/GTK
>> setting).
> 
> Mozilla shipped with SuSE Linux 10.0 and 10.1 use Emacs/Gmacs-style
> editor keys - and the same applies to Seamonkey 1.0 downloaded from
> Mozilla.org. Is it possible that you changed the setting somewhere ?
> 

The default in Nevada matches the default of GNOME/GTK, which is 
gtk_key_theme being 'Default', which is windows-style keys.

With gtk_key_theme changed to 'Emacs', which is not the default, both 
GNOME and Firefox change to using emacs-like keys.

-- Rich