[Idle-dev] Strange key for copying text

[StephenM.Gava]

Mats Wichmann wrote:
> At 03:32 PM 7/19/2001 +0300, Joonas Paalasmaa wrote:
>  >When I am copying some text in Idle with Alt+W  Windows dropdown list is
>  >unfolded, because it starts with W.
>  >And it's really annoying.
>  >Is this a bug or a desired feature?
>  >I am running Python2.1 on RH7.0
>
> I'm not sure it's really either, but it's certainly
> unfortunate.  The keybinding issue on UNIX/Linux
> machines is complicated by different users, and
> different window manager styles, wanting different
> keys for the same thing. 
[...]
> You can edit the keybindings yourself without too
> much trouble for a "quick fix" (pick something else
> for Copy), and it seems to me there was talk about
> not basing the choice of keybindings purely on
> operating system - i.e. allowing some user choice,
> but I don't know if that's on the current TODO list.
>

User configurability of things like keybindings, fonts, and colours are one 
of the areas we intend to address on the IDLEfork IDLE development branch.

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Stephen M. Gava
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