I agree that making keyboard mappings user-configurable is sensible.
However IMO, the default (Out-of-the-Box) configuration should as
similar as possible between the various IDEs.

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 4:15 PM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ideally keybinding should be user configurable because it is a matter of
> personal preference, eg. a certain key chord can be awkward to reach in
> some keyboard mappings.
>
> J701 is now a stable release albeit being crude, so that Jbeta forum can
> now take a break.
>
> Пнд, 07 Фев 2011, Ric Tikkanz писал(а):
>> I discovered that the Ctrl+j shortcut (same as J602) works to advance
>> from topic to topic but this probably needs to be made more
>> discoverable (Help|Studio|Advance ?).
>>
>> Ideally the default JHS and Gtk IDE shortcuts for advancing in a lab
>> (and other common things) should use the same letter - currently JHS
>> is (Esc,a) while Gtk IDE is (Ctrl+j).
>> JHS already uses (Esc,j) to switch to the jijx window, and Gtk IDE
>> already uses (Ctrl+a) as "select all" - a fairly widely-used standard
>> (browsers, editors).
>>
>> Currently:
>>                         JHS       Gtk
>> Switch to jijx/Term      j         T
>> Switch to jijs/Edit      J         M
>> Advance lab topic        a         j
>>
>>
>> Proposed:
>>                         JHS       Gtk
>> Switch to jijx/Term      j         j
>> Switch to jijs/Edit      J         J
>> Advance lab topic        t         t
>>
>> BTW, as I write this in my browser using Google mail, I notice that
>> they have successfully managed to use the standard Ctrl+ shortcuts
>> that we are used to in desktop apps  (i.e. Ctrl+s saves my draft,
>> Ctrl+B for bold etc.). It may therefore be possible to emulate what
>> they've done in JHS at some stage?
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