Bug 364998 - multi stroke keybindings
Summary: multi stroke keybindings
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Orion (Archived)
Classification: ECD
Component: Editor (show other bugs)
Version: 0.3   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: 3.0 RC3   Edit
Assignee: Silenio Quarti CLA
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Depends on: 372652
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Reported: 2011-11-28 14:15 EST by Susan McCourt CLA
Modified: 2013-09-06 08:38 EDT (History)
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Description Susan McCourt CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 2013-06-20 15:41:04 EDT 
Fixed in master (tracking doc updates here: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=406597)