26 Jul
2005
26 Jul
'05
9:34 a.m.
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 12:57:27PM -0700, eviltwin69(a)cableone.net wrote:
I disagree completely. Those who wrote Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox, IE should
have used the standard that was already in place. Emacs even pre-dates Mosaic.
Or should they all have used the / from vi for searches :-D All of this really
doesn't matter though, as Joe pointed out it's nice to have standards since
there
are so many ;-)
Just make key-bindings configurable some way. Maybe via .Xdefaults (or
.Xsession or whatever). But most humans can deal with using 2 or 3 different
standards at a time. Hell, it probably makes them feel like experts!
/ works to search in Firefox.
Surely Ctrl-S was used to stop scrolling on terminals since before emacs
was around. But that does not imply it's use is reserved for that purpose
only.
--
Martin
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30 years from now GNU/Linux will be as redundant a term as UNIX/MERT is
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One could argue that since search in Emacs has been ^s
for ages, that
those who use ^f are the ones who have broken convention for no good
reason.
True, but the Emacs people should have put a stop to it years ago before
IE and Mozilla and Firefox made Ctrl-F the de facto standard. Nowadays
if you want to integrate with the rest of the modern GUI desktop you'd
better play ball.