On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 12:57:27PM -0700, eviltwin69@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> One could argue that since search in Emacs has been ^s for ages, that > >> those who use ^f are the ones who have broken convention for no good > >> reason. > >> > > > >True, but the Emacs people should have put a stop to it years ago before > >IE and Mozilla and Firefox made Ctrl-F the de facto standard. Nowadays > >if you want to integrate with the rest of the modern GUI desktop you'd > >better play ball. > > I disagree completely. Those who wrote Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox, IE should > have used the standard that was already in place. Emacs even pre-dates Mosaic. > Or should they all have used the / from vi for searches :-D All of this really > doesn't matter though, as Joe pointed out it's nice to have standards since there > are so many ;-) Just make key-bindings configurable some way. Maybe via .Xdefaults (or .Xsession or whatever). But most humans can deal with using 2 or 3 different standards at a time. Hell, it probably makes them feel like experts! / works to search in Firefox. Surely Ctrl-S was used to stop scrolling on terminals since before emacs was around. But that does not imply it's use is reserved for that purpose only. -- Martin --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 30 years from now GNU/Linux will be as redundant a term as UNIX/MERT is today. - Martin Habets ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
