I think the ideal situation would be to have a single Preference which lets you swap all Ctrl and Alt bindings.  (Hopefully this wouldn't be too messy to do at the image level... I haven't looked into it.)

There are actually quite a few bindings that would then match Windows conventions, including cut/copy/paste (ctrl-x -c -v), undo (ctrl-z), find and find again (ctrl-f -g), and save/accept (ctrl-s), and maybe others.

Of course this preference would be turned off by default, so that people would know what they are getting into when they turned on the preference.  (You'd have to keep in mind that your bindings are swapped when reading documentation about bindings.)

- Doug Way
  dway at riskmetrics.com


G.J.Tielemans at dinkel.utwente.nl wrote:
> 
> Yes, in that case you decide to file in the adaptation on your local
> machine? in the meantime not a bad solution, so please sent it again to the
> list?
> 
> It would be more elegant, if everyone could change these settings in the
> place where they are all together: in the Command Key help page under Help
> in the World menu. (with a copy in the preferences area because you now can
> change your settings as preferences?)
> I don't have the slightest idea how much work that is, but are you
> expert-guys not always saying that this is very easy in a OO-systems like
> Smalltalk?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ducasse stephane [mailto:ducasse at iam.unibe.ch]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 12:26 PM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: {bad habits] Squeak for Windows - Ctrl instead of Alt key
> 
> if you are interested I made in 2.8 an extension that allow you to specify
> on a per object (paragraph or text) level the mapping you want.
> This mapping been shared if not needed. I sent it two times in the list.
> 
> Stef