Re: keyboard traversal

Some time ago, Ben Wing wrote... I would propose the following keystrokes: Widget -> Buffer point: ESC probably will do better. Buffer -> Widget. I can find no analog in Microsoft products. Different hot keys are used for different widgets. For example, in DevStudio I have 3 drop-downs on different toolbars. The Search for is activated by C-d, Active project by M-C-p, and the third one does not have a shortcut at all. I would suggest F4, which often performs actions which can be grouped under "activate something else" category. For exmaple, in Explorer, F4 selects Drives drop-down box on the toolbar. Also, it might be a good idea to implement :hotkey property on widgets, to get to the right destination in one keystroke. TAB next, Sh-TAB previous -- same as Ben proposed F6/Sh-F6 is what is used in MS products. When I used Borland C products some 10 years ago (TTY based), there was Alt (=Meta in Windows) + arrows switch between panes. I loved it, it was much better that cycle when there are many panes. Do not know for this one. I would reserve C-F6 and C-Sh-F6 for cycling buffers in windows. In Windows, they cycle through MDI windows in an application, MDI is a kind of windows which are decorated like regular top level windows but all live in another window, which contains nothing more, i.e. is effectively a desktop-in-a-window for this application. When an MDI window is maximized, it occupies the whole workspace window, and C-F6 and C-Sh-F6 in this case cycle through open documents, not changing the appearance otherwise. In MS Windows, switching between frames is a task of Window manager,Alt-TAB and Alt-Shift-Tab cycle windows, C-Sh-ESC brings up a listbox to select a window. I cannot speak for X, but window managers which I used did support it, except maybe olwm. Do we really need a keystroke to switch between XEmacs windows? Big K