# native-style key bindings for gitk on Mac OS X 3 messages from 2010-12-12 to 2010-12-13. Participants: Hans-Christoph Steiner, Andreas Ericsson. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/26030 ## Hans-Christoph Steiner, 2010-12-12 22:08 Subject: native-style key bindings for gitk on Mac OS X Message-ID: <681947AB-F2D2-4EBC-A635-09E28FC27256@at.or.at> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/681947AB-F2D2-4EBC-A635-09E28FC27256%40at.or.at ``` 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. F-keys are really rarely used on Mac OS X, so it drives me a little nuts using them in gitk/Mac OS X. Before starting this, I just wanted to make sure this isn't some hotly debated political issue. .hc ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realize his wishes. Now that he can realize them, he must either change them, or perish. -William Carlos Williams ``` ## Andreas Ericsson, 2010-12-13 08:30 Subject: Re: native-style key bindings for gitk on Mac OS X Message-ID: <4D05D998.5080107@op5.se> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4D05D998.5080107%40op5.se 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. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace. ``` ## Hans-Christoph Steiner, 2010-12-13 16:28 Subject: Re: native-style key bindings for gitk on Mac OS X Message-ID: <29A2F453-C1F8-4C7E-A35B-3F159EB693B8@at.or.at> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/29A2F453-C1F8-4C7E-A35B-3F159EB693B8%40at.or.at In-Reply-To: <4D05D998.5080107@op5.se> ``` On Dec 13, 2010, at 3:30 AM, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > 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. I think that's a good idea. The only problem is Cmd-F5 (i.e. Reload) is already globally claimed in Mac OS X to turn on the accessibility voiceover reader. So all you get is a robot voice reading your GUI to you. This could be Ctrl-F5 instead, then it'd be the same as on GNU/ Linux. .hc ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "[T]he greatest purveyor of violence in the world today [is] my own government." - Martin Luther King, Jr. ```