How to disable all "keyboard shortcuts"
Little Girl
littlergirl at gmail.com
Sun Aug 14 16:55:32 UTC 2022
Hey there,
Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
>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.
>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.
That's a relief. Thanks. I'll go ahead and add some shortcuts to some
of my programs after all now.
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Little Girl
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