How to disable all "keyboard shortcuts"

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 2022-08-13 at 10:19 -0400, Little Girl wrote:
> Also, I don't know about everybody else, but I get awfully nervous
> any time a program allows me to come up with my own key-combinations
> for things. There's the worry that any combination you come up with
> may already exist and be overwritten by your new one. Then, hand in
> hand with that one, there's the moment where you have to decide
> whether to either try the combination first (risky) or look it up in
> all possible locations (nearly impossible or at least very
> time-consuming). I usually just abstain.

Hi,

your fear is partly based on a misconception. If you focus a window of
an averaged GUI editor pushing Ctrl+A is for "select all", if you focus
the window of a terminal emulation Ctrl+A is for readline's "move to the
start of the line". There is no pitfall related to damaging something by
overwriting a shortcut, but a pitfall related to confusion by overriding
a shortcut. IOW the same shortcut can and usually has got different
functions depending on the focus. Shortcuts are usually not as global as
some users might think.

Regards,
Ralf