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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Disabling cmd-q in Terminal
Message-ID: <518@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Date: 4 Jun 91 01:29:55 GMT
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Paul Biron writes
> In article <517@heaven.woodside.ca.us> I wrote: 
> >Wow.  How did you learn about that dwrite? 
> >Who's gonna write the app that lets you change the command-key
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >equivalents for any applications?
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Richard Williamson already has, its called Preferences (2.0 and up).
> I just set cmd-Q to be quit *in all apps* on my machine.

Exactly.  *in all apps*.  But you can't do it for individual apps
with the Preferences app, which is what I was asking about.

I knew about the Preferences feature, but it changes the systemwide
default, not for a particular App.  I didn't realize it was a more
general default/preference in the database, settable for any app.
I also don't really like the fact that it's indexed by character strings.
Some features are spelled slightly differently from one App to the
next, and you can't globally set a preference for all of them.  Plus,
you often can't set global key equivalents without their conflicting
with local key equivalents for particular apps, since anything goes
beyond the few strictly governed ones.  Just try setting a key equivalent
for "C" or "{" or whatever.

So (I think) we still need the KeyEquiv program that will let you
register these defaults for individual applications, rather than for
the whole system.  Plus it needs a better interface than having to type
in exactly what is displayed on the menu button.  I wonder what happens
with menus that change dynamically, as in "Hide Rulers" and "Show Rulers"?
I suppose you need a preference for both of them :-(

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