Re: Redefining command keys

[Mike Gorse]

Well..Seems to me that different people will want to use different keys,
so may be you could store the keybindings in an external file that the
user can modify, as yasr does. :)

--Michael Gorse, WPI Cs '01 / ICQ:22583968 / http://www.wpi.edu/~mgorse/ --
     If you're an oister, then don't let your perl get away from you.

On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, A. R. Vener wrote:

> 
> I suggest you take a page from the emacs, lynx and vi book and
> use only keys which can be touch typd. I have no problem with 
> For example
> f, b  can be forward and backword six second
> ^f, ^b can be forwad and backward one minute
> >, < - forward and backward ten minutes etc.
> 
> and so forth. These keys have the advantage of being touch typable. I for 
> one hat to use any keypad key because it means taking ten seconds to locate
> my position on the keypad instead of just typing from the main keyboard.
> 
> 
> This constraint would make it most friendly to blind users IMHO.
> 
> Rudy
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> > Shortly after the release of trplayer 1.1.0, Dave Mielke sent me some
> > ideas for the command keys in trplayer.  He thinks that the left and
> > right arrows should move by 6 seconds, the up and down arrows should
> > move by 60 seconds (1 minute), and the page-up and page-down keys
> > should move by 10 minutes.  He also suggested that the home key should
> > make it go back to the beginning, and the end key should make it go to
> > the end with an automatic pause.  I think these are good ideas; the
> > only potential problem I see is that in the standard RealPlayer,
> > page-up and page-down move between clips (something I just figured out
> > how to do last night).  So I'm thinking that for these functions, I
> > should use the plus and minus keys, as FreeAmp does.  What do you
> > think?
> > 
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