[Ipe-discuss] pre27 and Emacs bindings

[Otfried Cheong]

Kostas Oikonomou wrote:
> I just built pre 27 on Solaris, but I cannot get Emacs-like behavior in 
> the Latex text-entry box.
> E.g., even if my ipekeys.xml do not have an entry for Ctrl+A, Ctrl+A 
> still "selects all" instead of going to the beginning of the line.
> 
> Is there anything that can be done?

It seems that Qt 4 simply does not support the Emacs-like bindings
anymore, see:

http://doc.trolltech.com/4.2/qtextedit.html#read-only-key-bindings

What I could try is to allow Ipe to run an external program (i.e.
emacsclient) for editing text.  But I'm not sure how well that is going
to work (or when I have time to play with it).

Otfried