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Ugh this destroyed my productivity too for a while. I even wrote an entire blog post about my woes and different experiments to get back to getting consistent s
by alexdme 4y ago
Ugh this destroyed my productivity too for a while. I even wrote an entire blog post about my woes and different experiments to get back to getting consistent shortcuts across terminal and GUI apps here: https://alexdav.id/2020/07/12/text-manipulation-and-modifier-keys.html https://alexdav.id/2020/07/12/text-manipulation-and-modifier.... GTK key themes didn't end up working out for me, and I ended up with a custom QMK solution, but it's not great.
Note for people still using macos, you can enable many more readline shortcuts by creating a special file at ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict. I made a repo that simplifies the process to just a single git clone when setting up a new machine: https://github.com/alexdavid/keybindings https://github.com/alexdavid/keybindings
- bloopernova 4y agoVery cool! What keys do ~ and ^ represent? { "^w" = "deleteWordBackward:"; "~f" = "moveWordForward:"; "~b" = "moveWordBackward:"; "~d" = "deleteWordForward:"; "~<" = "moveToBeginningOfDocument:"; "~>" = "moveToEndOfDocument:"; "~w" = "copy:"; "^y" = "yank:"; "^t" = "transpose:"; "^p" = "moveUp:"; "^n" = "moveDown:"; "^u" = "deleteToBeginningOfLine:"; }
- beembeem 4y agoIf it's anything like readline/Emacs, then: ^ = Control ~ = Escape
- alexdme 4y agoIn this file `~` is meta (option key on macs). Not sure why it's not escape like it is in emacs.
- dotancohen 4y agoOn Linux, Meta is activated on modern keyboards by both ESC and ALT.
- Jtsummers 4y agoAlso on macOS and (at least within emacs) Windows.
- a1369209993 4y agoBecause on a particular three/four-decade-old physical terminal[0], Alt-$KEY was transmitted as "1B [sequence for $KEY]". Eg, Alt-X was "1B 58"[1]. The escape key happened to also transmit "1B" on its own. Consequently, "Alt-$KEY" and "Esc, $KEY" were indistinguishable unless you went out of your way to engineer a race condition. This has never really been fixed, despite intermittent attempts. 0: I think VT100, but don't quote me on that 1: or possibly "1B 78", depending on how it handled shift; I don't remember exactly.