Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!msi.umn.edu!noc.MR.NET!gacvx2.gac.edu!gacvx2.gac.edu!scott From: scott@mcs-server.gac.edu (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Disabling cmd-q in Terminal Message-ID: Date: 4 Jun 91 06:50:56 GMT Article-I.D.: mcs-serv.SCOTT.91Jun4015056 References: <1991Jun3.051146.2818@nntp-server.caltech.edu><517@heaven.woodside.ca.us> <5423@network.ucsd.edu> Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College Lines: 46 Nntp-Posting-Host: mcs-server.gac.edu In-reply-to: pbiron@keynes.ucsd.edu's message of 3 Jun 91 15:08:28 GMTLines: 46 In article <5423@network.ucsd.edu> pbiron@keynes.ucsd.edu (Paul Biron) writes: In article <517@heaven.woodside.ca.us> glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) writes: >Bing-Qing Chen writes > >> dwrite Terminal NXCommandKeys "Quit,Q,Close Window,W" > >Wow. How did you learn about that dwrite? That's really powerful >and great! Beats the heck out of nibediting the application itself. >After some snooping around, I see that it's supported by all apps. >Why haven't people made a bigger deal out of this? Is it undocumented? >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). Fire up Preferences and look in the section with the picture of a menu. Check out the right side, labeled Keyboard Alternatives. Well, not really. Preferences sets the Keyboard Alternatives for _every_ application, not for _any_ applications. I would like to have a specific version that could be used in a finer manner - even though the NeXT is quite consistent in it's usage of command- keys, the very keys that you'd like to change are going to be the non-standard ones, which means different vendors are using different keys for them (they aren't required to register, or anything!). Changing a single app's equivalents via Preferences is a little cumbersome . . . With a version that could target single apps, you could make more of the apps look more similar on your own (I don't like how, for instance, the command-equiv for "center", as in "center text" seems to differ between most apps, command-- in some, command-, in others, etc, etc.) Later, -- scott hess scott@gac.edu Independent NeXT Developer Graduated GAC Undergrad! Note: I have moved home for a time. My email address will still be valid. Any SnailMail should be redirected, along with phone calls. At the least, my parents can tell you how to get hold of me, or forward any mail . . . Old: PO 829, GAC, St. Peter, MN 56082 (507) 933-8466 New: RR#4 Box 227 Pipestone, MN 56164 (507) 825-2788