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Yes it's a nice benefit for emacs users that readline offers good emacs-style editing. Although, enough command line tools support vim-style editing too that th
by slurgfest 14y ago
Yes it's a nice benefit for emacs users that readline offers good emacs-style editing. Although, enough command line tools support vim-style editing too that the level of benefit is not much.
However, it seems like it's a common problem not to be able to specify your own behavior for GUI controls at a system level
- spudlyo 14y agoReadline also has a vi mode, which I've heard is pretty good. I agree that a good OS should allow you to choose your editing keys (either vim or emacs style) and not allow applications to step on them. Unfortunately that's a feature that most users probably wouldn't care about.
- slurgfest 14y agoOn the other hand, the feature wouldn't hurt them; if a default user-friendly interface personality is provided with the existing behavior, they don't even have to know that the the system is swappable. If my hands weren't so full and I had any special level of expertise with GUI development, this is an itch I would find worth scratching - I don't imagine this could occur anywhere but linux and bsd, though.