emacs keybindings? alsaconf?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 07:40:42PM -0400, Scott Campbell wrote:

> Thanks. Two follow-up questions then, which may or may not be best
> directed here, rather than a gtk guru.
> 
> 1) Is there any way to override things a bit better, that is, Ctrl-a
> should be 'Goto beginning of line', rather than 'Select All'. I know
> that the idea is to mimic other DE's and OS's, but my fingers are nicely
> trained for emacs.

That's what the gconf command does, by setting the Emacs key theme.

> 2) Was this option (to choose emacs bindings) deliberately removed from
> the dialog with Ubuntu? Gnome2.8? Just curious. This seems like the kind
> of simplicity on might expect from either.

It was an upstream decision; I'm not sure of the background for it.  I could
certainly understand things like "emacs keybindings" being confusing to a
new user.

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 - mdz