[TxMt] Re: key binding blues

[Jacob Rus]

Allan Odgaard wrote:
> On 25. Jul 2007, at 22:06, Darren Hardy wrote:
> 
>> [...]
>> my question is how do i ensure that my keybindings override 
>> everything? for example, TextMate uses ^h in lots of different bundles 
>> and i have to hand-edit a dozen different bundles to change ^h to 
>> something else. (i thought control- functions were reserved for user 
>> stuff?).
> 
> It is, but we mandated that after ⌃H was already in widespread use. I am 
> afraid that you’ll need to change all the bundles which use ⌃H.
> 
> I am aware that this is tedious, and a future version is likely going to 
> provide an alternative.

For the record, I very much hope that some other keystroke is 
substituted for ⌃H in TM2, so that ⌃ + letters can be preserved for 
users’ personal stuff. :)


>> also, is there anyplace that has the definitive documentation for what 
>> the keybindings are? (TextMate's 'Show Keyboard Shortcuts' isn't 
>> showing my changes).  i'm mostly interested in text navigation and 
>> basic word processing functions.
> 
> Not sure what you mean here. Are you referring to the action methods you 
> can use in the key bindings dictionary? In this case, you should look at 
> the methods implemented by NSResponder. But in practice, these are just 
> methods sent to the first responder in the key chain that implements the 
> method, so a definite list would be basically all methods of all classes 
> which can be first responder in a Cocoa program -- of course not all 
> these methods should be used.

See, for this:
http://hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/cocoa-text.html
http://hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/selectors.html