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From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@at.or.at>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: native-style key bindings for gitk on Mac OS X
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 09:30:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D05D998.5080107@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <681947AB-F2D2-4EBC-A635-09E28FC27256@at.or.at>

On 12/12/2010 11:08 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> This is my first post here, hopefully I'm not doing anything stupid
> ;) I use gitk on Debian, Ubuntu, and Mac OS X. I'm big on having apps
> feel native on each platform. Currently gitk's key bindings are very
> GNU/Linux-ish when using gitk on Mac OS X. I'd like to submit a patch
> to make gitk use native-style key bindings and re-use common key
> bindings.

So long as the patch lets the original keys work (ie, people who are
used to them as they are now aren't suddenly hit by a nasty surprise),
I think it's a great idea.

> Before starting this, I just wanted to make sure this isn't some
> hotly debated political issue.
> 

It will be if the old keys stop working or all of a sudden do something
different. Especially if the new thing it does isn't exactly harmless
but the old thing was.

-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-13  8:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-12 22:08 native-style key bindings for gitk on Mac OS X Hans-Christoph Steiner
2010-12-13  8:30 ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]
2010-12-13 16:28   ` Hans-Christoph Steiner

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