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280Z28:
My personal viewpoint is that the final release candidate should be the same as the released version. For example, OpenOffice 2.0RC3 and OpenOffice 2.0 Final have the same md5sum. Firefox 1.5RC3 is identical to Firefox 1.5 Final, although I haven't checked the md5sums there.

Anyway, we could go to an RC4, but we might go straight to final. When we do go to final, this project is going to get a lot of publicity (hello Slashdot), and people from other editors are going to check it out. I think it would be amazing if the first time it's run, a dialog pops up asking what editor they are used to, and sets up the initial keystroke bindings to match what they are familiar with. I've used ConTEXT and Visual Studio extensively and can list all the key bindings for each one. Of course, the default option on that dialog would be "Use Code::Blocks default keys." Other people here can fill in for other popular "normal" editors. Obviously we can't use VIM keys since they aren't regular bindings. But there's UltraEdit, Eclipse, JEdit... others I'm sure. We don't have to get all just ones that people here are already familiar with. Shouldn't take long to set up a couple different default profiles. :)

Can we do this before RC3 so it's tested and ready for our slashdot users? :)

rickg22:
Sorry, no slashdotting before 1.0. And that's final.

280Z28:

--- Quote from: rickg22 on December 15, 2005, 11:30:25 pm ---Sorry, no slashdotting before 1.0. And that's final.

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Oh no you misread what I wrote. I know that it's only going to be on /. for 1.0 final. :)

I'm saying let's have something in there to help them adjust when they come, and to make sure it's tested by us first, to put it in RC3, just for us to test.

rickg22:
Yiannis told me he'd clean the current bugs after he's done with restructuring into wxIFM etc.

280Z28:

--- Quote from: rickg22 on December 15, 2005, 11:37:34 pm ---Yiannis told me he'd clean the current bugs after he's done with restructuring into wxIFM etc.

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I'm not talking about a bug really.

Are keybindings stored in the default.conf file or another? I'm just suggesting we make a couple default default.conf files and let the user choose the one that will be the closest configuration match to the editor they are coming from, with the default option (like if they hit cancel, or ok without selecting a different option) being "Use the Code::Blocks default interface (recommended)"

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