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Re: standard event bindings
>> I therefore mapped KP + and KP - to zoom in and out in the mac
>> (non-Tcl) interface a long time ago. Maybe we should do this as a rule
>> on all platforms
>
>Well, it is kind of bad to have it be a Mac-only thing.
>
>> get rid of the curly braces altogether?
>
>Unfortunately, this doesn't work so well either. All the keyboards I
>use (for example, laptop keyboards) don't have a convenient keypad (it
>involves using a Fn key or a "keypad" mode or some such).
>
>I can't help but think there is a simpler solution. Usually in tcl,
>if one has confusion between "{}" as "{" and as empty string, it has
>to do with getting quoting wrong. Seems to me (as far as I can tell
>from the bind(n) manpage) that "%K" is wrong and it should be just %K.
>In tcl, {} are quotes, so I think what is happening is that tcl quotes
>for you and then the "" quote it again, so it then does become
>impossible to distinguish between "{" and an empty string. I haven't
>tested this hypothesis, though.
>
>I also might move the if statement inside handle_key_binding but I
>doubt that has a particularly strong connection to this problem.
Sounds plausible. I will check if it works in MacTCL.
Hans
Hans Ronne
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