[IPython-dev] Min: Cmd-P/Ctrl-P for new print code question..

[Fernando Perez]

Hey,

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:35 PM, MinRK <benjaminrk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hm, that's annoying, sorry I didn't catch it.

No worries, I didn't notice either until a while later.

> One of my very favorite things about OSX is that since the standard meta key
> is cmd instead of ctrl, all regular GUI bindings (entirely cmd-based) and
> all emacs-style bindings (ctrl-based) have no degeneracy, so you don't have
> to choose between having ctrl-a be home or select-all, or this cmd/ctrl-P
> behavior, and basic emacs navigation works in *all* GUI apps by default.

Indeed.  And if only Apple had the decency to include a right Ctrl-key
(in addition to Cmd and Alt/Option) on their laptop/small desktop
keyboards, I might actually own an Apple machine! :) [I can't stand
having to chord on only left-Ctrl key for everything on the smaller
Apple keyboards, despite loving them].

> Yes, we should do a platform check, since it would be completely hideous to
> be the only Mac app in the world that doesn't use cmd-P for print.
> Questions:
> Is it just Linux, or will there also be a conflict in Windows?
>  Specifically: is OSX the only one without a problem, or is Linux the only
> one with a problem?

OSX is the only one *without* a problem. So the fix is to leave your
current version for OSX, and switch out to Ctrl-Shift-P for all others
(*nix, Windows).

> Is there a similar conflict on ctrl-S?

In principle yes, except that we have no other keybinding for Ctrl-S
yet, so I'm not that worried about that one.

Cheers,

f