[Ipe-discuss] pre27 and Emacs bindings

Johan Ingvast ingvast at md.kth.se
Fri Oct 13 21:20:55 CEST 2006


Otfried Cheong wrote:
> 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).
I think that is the way to go. But, if that is the case, please make it
possible to choose editor by for example an environmental variable.
I'd prefer to run Vim.
/johan

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