#EMACS KEY BINDINGS SOFTWARE#

or on the GTK git repository on GitHub (which doesn't necessarily equal your local file, as your distro might have modified it). either locally, probably at /usr/share/themes/Emacs/gtk-3.0/gtk-keys.css) superuser.įor GTK3 applications, you can view the bindings of the Emacs GTK key theme For this reason I think it is best to ask such question to Linux-generic places, e.g. Bug reports about such needs are marked down-priority. Ubuntu does not officially suppoprt emacs editing mode, nor anything other UI configuration that cannot be done with UI.

#EMACS KEY BINDINGS SOFTWARE#

Despite conflicting with many other software (ideograph input methods in particular, and auto-completion in some other editor software), there is not any shortcut key to make use of the anchor you set. You may also find Ctrl- SPACE is in emacs mode configured to set an anchor in the text. Some may suggest you leave a mark somewhere for random selection with keyboard. This is a unique setting only of gtk3's emacs mode: in real emacs it doesn't do anything on its own in readline (bash, mysql etc) it is supposed to delete everything from cursor to begining of the line, while its counter-part Ctrl- k deletes everything from cursor to the end of the line. This has the advantage of not overwriting X SELECTION (the one you yank with middle mouse button). Google Translate takes SHIFT key, when pressed alone, as 'select-all', but non other software nor other Google products follow the setting. Excluding e, there are not any other key left in the left half of a QWERTY keyboard without an already-well-accepted purpose. But even Hispanophones, the largest non-English speaking group (Chinese excluded because we use ideographs), who are used to select everything with Ctrl- e, would find that keyboard shortcut taken by emacs, too. To make the situation even worse, it is difficult to relocate a shortcut key for this purpose. In fact, only a handful of emacs shortcuts are defined - Take a peeked at /usr/share/themes/Emacs/gtk-3.0/gtk-keys.css there are enough space on a sticker to write down all supported emacs shortcuts.

For the curious minds I have additional information:Ī seasoned emacs user would attempt Ctrl- x- h: authentic emacs indeed, but no control key-sequence are understood by gtk3's emacs mode.

On a side note, Ctrl- Home is the only short-cut to move to the beginning of all text, even it may interrupt your work to key in for small-keyboard mobile devices. Calling for bug-fix in each individual software can only be done with a meta-project like GNOME, but knowing GNOME itself produced some of these problems (removal of Edit Menu in 'nautilus' is a GNOME 3 decision) really didn't leave you much hope. Even the right-click menu doesn't have a fixed shortcut for 'Select-All' - it is usually a but can be t from application to application. This inconsistence beats the purpose of the Alt-activated menu bar, and not any operating system, not even Windows, is as inconsitant. Selecting 'Select-all' from 'Edit' menu is a bad idea, because it maps to Alt- e - a in firefox,Īlt- e - t in gedit, Alt- e - s in OpenOffice (even with gnome-integration), in each software a different key, and in some software, there is no 'Select-all' in Edit Menu, like chromium, and in some software, there is not even Edit Menu itself, not even a hidden one to be called out with Alt- e, like nautilus.

If, for the good reason of editing efficiency or limitations of mobile device's keyboards, Home and End are out of reach, then you will have to get by. If you need to select everything in a GtkTextView, the multi-line editor-like control, you are left to do the onerous Ctrl- Home followed by Ctrl+ Shift- End, which, with my 63-key keyboard is almost impossible. This, however only works with GtkEntry, that is, one-line input field. You can go to the end of the text with Ctrl- e and remove a line Ctrl- u. There isn't a single shortcut to do so directly.

Emacs key bindings