Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Changing accellerator keys in gnome-terminal

[Michael Sullivan <michael@espersunited.com>]

On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 16:40 +0100, Markus Schönhaber wrote:
> Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > Is it possible to change the accellerator keys in gnome-terminal?  I
> > would like to change
> >
> > Copy from Cntrl+Shift+C to Cntrl+C
> > Paste from Cntrl+Shift+P to Cntrl+P
> >
> > (like it is in just about every other gnome app).  I was looking at the
> > source code for gnome-terminal, at a file called terminal-accels.c and I
> > see a function:
> >
> > static KeyEntry edit_entries[] =
> > {
> >   { N_("Copy"),
> >     KEY_COPY, ACCEL_PATH_COPY, 0, 0, NULL, FALSE },
> >   { N_("Paste"),
> >     KEY_PASTE, ACCEL_PATH_PASTE, 0, 0, NULL, FALSE },
> > };
> [...]
> 
> Why don't you simply use "Keyboard Shortcuts..." from gnome-terminal's "Edit" 
> menu?
> 
> BTW: I wouldn't call it a good idea to map Ctrl-C to something in a terminal 
> emulator, since Ctrl-C is normally used to interrupt the running program in 
> the shell. I wouldn't want to sacrifice this ability.
> 
> Regards
>   mks

Could I map Cntrl+C for abort to something more intuitive?  Like Esc?

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