Cocoa Keybinding Translation

It would add an incredible value to Parallels if we could see complete translation of keybindings of Cocoa apps to Parallels guest instances. For example, control-e and command-right arrow should send the cursor to the end of line. Option-Delete should delete backwards entire words. This is going to take some work and from what I hear the work is being done, so here is an extra urge that this direction be pursued as it is a real winner, especially for those of us using development tools and need real key binding consistency from Mac OS X to Windows.

 

Cmd-tab

One other thing of note in Coherence mode is that the command-tab combination should perform the standard Mac OS X cmd-tab rather than Windows-key-tab. It should flip between all Mac OS X and Windows Apps in terms of showing the app selector ribbon in Mac OS X that actually does show both types of applications.

 

An FYI for Parallels, the developer of XKeymacs seems rather experienced in hacking Windows key binding functionality, you may wish to contact him/her and subcontract out some work or training for your developers. The application is nice, but it certainly could be seriously honed for Mac OS X emulation and the base of the system could be incorporated in the Parallels Tools Center.

http://www.cam.hi-ho.ne.jp/oishi/index.html

 

Sorry, here's the English version:

http://www.cam.hi-ho.ne.jp/oishi/indexen.html

 

It is already work this way, isn't it?

 

Yes and no. It depends. You need (1) to have focus on OS X before hitting cmd-tab, else the cmd-tab is given straight to the VM as a Windows-tab, actually switching between windows tasks inside the windows vm. You also need (2) to have set up Parallels and the VM settings such as to display Windows application icons in the Mac OS X dock, else the cmd-tab pressed from Mac OS X will only see Mac OS X application and the Parallels application itself.

What would be really powerful is this: either with OS X focused or a Windows VM focused, at any time so, pressing cmd-tab is handled on the OS X side and allows to roll between all OS X application + all running Windows VM applications (not the VM themselves, but the applications running in the VM) and have this happen wether or not the user chose to have the windows application to be displayed in the dock or not.

In that ideal world, each windows VM would have a new configuration switch to choose wether the cmd-tab is to be intercepted or pass through to Windows as Windows-tab.