More keyboard shortcuts

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Yep, you're right, I am going to jump on you.

Personallly I believe that there should be a keyboard shortcut for just about
everything. Although I don't really call jump to bottom or top and the like
shortcuts, just standard editor features.

When in mid flow one may just use keyboard shortcuts rather than switching to
mouse mode, going to some menu and loosing your train of thought ;-) But
seriously, this is a real possability if, like me you do most of your devlopment
on a laptop (configuration equipment etc.). Touchpads are fiddly things at the
best of times. 

Surely as long as we all have fingers shortcuts are a plus, not a negative.

A similar situation comes to mind. I cannot use Win 98 'cos the floppy drive
will not 'hot dock' unless the laptop is booted with it in the parrallel port.
(If the floppy drive is added later and access is attempted Win 98 appears to
hang, until it eventually returns saying the floppy is not accessable.) The only
reason I can think of, apart from (God forbid) a bug ;-), is that M$ assume
that all modern laptops come with CD and floppy on board at the same time.
Obviously they didn't stop to think about those users who, foolishly, updated
from 95 to 98. 

Moral : don't think because no one has spoken out that no one has noticed the
lack of keyboard support !!! I use them all the time in Dev Studio (oops, hush
my mouth). Don't assume that everyone prefers mouse use.

Having read through this I realise that it sounds like a repremand. It's not,
its just some thoughts. I think kdevelop is wonderful :)

Owen

 On Sun, 09 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> > In a program, everything should be accessible from the keyboard. I see
> > that a lot of previous X toolkits didn't respect this convention. Qt
> > provides the tools to do it, so I would like to see a keyboard shortcut
> > for each function in next versions of KDevelop. For example, there is no
> > key to go on top and to the bottom of a document, no key to switch
> > between windows...
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> Not to take away too much of it's importance, it's interesting to note
> that, to my knowledge, only two other people have mentioned this, and one of
> those was someone who was caught out with a broken mouse and tried to drive
> kdevelop. In a year or so that's pretty minimal use... (Having said that, I bet
> you will all junp on me :-)
> 
> I did look at this for use with my internal debugger and ran into a further
> problem. Any set of logical keys I defined would conflict with keys already
> defined. Eventually I gave up thinking about it and put it into the "for future
> release" basket :-)
> 
> If you have a solution to all this, I'm sure Sandy and co would _love_ to get
> hold of it.
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> 
> jbb
> http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~jbb