Subject: Re: keyboard input of arbitrary characters
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 27 2001 - 03:17:44 CDT
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 08:59:55AM +0200, Mike Nordell wrote:
> Paul Rohr wrote:
> > However, in addition I'm still tempted to pick some prefix which kicks us
> > into hex-entry mode as described previously. Essentially the idea would
> > be to swallow four keystrokes after the magic trigger, interpret them as
> > hex, and do an insertChar() on the result.
> >
> > For example, if the magic trigger were, say, Ctrl-Esc, then the following
> > key squence (where commas separate each character typed) would add
> > a bullet:
> >
> > Ctrl-Esc , 2 , 0 , 2 , 2
> [...]
> > Given what I know of Jeff's keybinding mechanism -- ie, it supports more
> > emacs or vi bindings than I care to admit
>
> Speaking of vi, is there even an indication anyone ever _used_ AbiWord using
> vi bindings?
Just yesterday, I helped someone set up Abi to use the vi
keybindings. So yes, they are used.
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