[ZDP] Netscape key bindings

[Paul Everitt]

I never knew that!  My goodness, that is an amazingly useful piece of
information to share!

Too bad M-% doesn't work :^)

--Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig Allen [mailto:cba@mediaone.net]
> Sent: Monday, May 17, 1999 11:41 PM
> To: zdp@zope.org
> Subject: [ZDP] Netscape key bindings
> 
> 
> Amazing that it took me several years to discover this, but I 
> never realized
> that under Linux, anyway, Netscape uses many of the useful 
> emacs key bindings.  
> That means that working in the /manage screens editing HTML 
> and DTML can be much
> more efficient.  Obviously it's a small subset but significant.  
> Here's what seemed to work:
> Cursor movement:
> C-f move forward one char
> C-b move back one char
> C-p move to previous line
> C-n move to next line
> M-f move forward one word
> M-b move back one word
> C-a move to beginning of line
> C-e move to end of line
> C-v scroll forward one "page"
> M-> move to end of text
> M-< move to start of text
> deletion:
> C-d delete char
> M-d delete word cursor is in
> C-k delete to end of line
> C-w delete from mark to current cursor location
> set mark:
> C-@ (actually C-2 works) set mark
> C-space set mark
> 
> Go ahead, laugh, but it was a revelation to me so I thought 
> I'd share it :-)
> - Craig
> -- 
> Craig Allen  - Managing Partner - Mutual Alchemy
> Information Architecture - http://alchemy.nu
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