Andrew Savory lists@andrewsavory.com wrote:
CTRL-A selects all in most of my X apps: nedit, galeon, openoffice.org, etc.
Brokenness of other applications is no reason to continue it. Actually, isn't Galeon GNOME/GTK+2, which is what I was complaining about? openoffice.org are still sorting themselves out. nedit should be better ;-)
I'd suggest the "Home" key would be a saner binding for "start of line".
Home is a very poor key for such a common function, being over on the navigation keypad, making you relocate your hands. "Start of Line" is something you want to do a lot while in the flow of typing. "Home" is a lot better for "start of buffer" or "home", depending on app, but the functions which are normally bound in the main keypad: start/end of line; delete backwards and forwards; transpose characters; mark/copy/kill/yank region; are there for a reason.