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Bug 364998

Summary:	multi stroke keybindings
Product:	[ECD] Orion	Reporter:	Susan McCourt <susan>
Component:	Editor	Assignee:	Silenio Quarti <Silenio_Quarti>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	gheorghe, Silenio_Quarti
Version:	0.3
Target Milestone:	3.0 RC3
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
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Bug Depends on:	372652
Bug Blocks:

Description Susan McCourt

2011-11-28 14:15:01 EST

Opening a separate bug for this, it was mentioned in bug 348823.

> One thing that I have in my mind is to add support for multi-stroke keybinding
> in the text view (VIM style shortcuts).
> Silenio and I never had the time to mature this idea into a API proposal

Multi stroke bindings could be important for avoiding keybinding conflicts.  For example, many of gmail's bindings are multi stroke.  

Note that we would need this to work in the editor and outside of the editor (for command keybindings) but I imagine we would reuse the editor keybinding class for determining matches, etc.

Comment 1 Susan McCourt

2011-11-28 14:17:33 EST

(In reply to comment #0)

> Multi stroke bindings could be important for avoiding keybinding conflicts. 

What I mean by this is that we currently are running out of bindings such as Ctrl+<someLetter> because the various browsers use most of them, and multi stroke bindings might give us more options.

This is not urgent from my point of view.

Comment 2 Bogdan Gheorghe

2013-06-20 15:41:04 EDT

Fixed in master (tracking doc updates here: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=406597)