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• Ctrl-x: cut highlighted text
• Ctrl-c: copy highlighted text
  
• Ctrl-v: paste text from clipboard (should work with text copied/cut from any application)
• Ctrl-n: open new (blank) note
• Ctrl-o: open file (via a file dialog)
• Ctrl-s: save current text
• Ctrl-a: save current text as filename.
• Ctrl-p: print current text [Linux only]
• Ctrl-h: display help

• Change the note's background color: I chose the default color because of its obvious resemblance to paper sticky-notes. You can change the color to anything you like by editing this line, under def Rhinote(): in the rhinote.py source:
  
  
  t = TextWidget(r, font = ("Helvetica 9 bold"), bg = "#f9f3a9", wrap = "word")
  
  
  The color is defined (in hex) in the bg = "#f9f3a9" section. Simply change this to whatever hex triplet you'd like and save the file.
  
  
• Change the font: In the line quoted above, font = defines the font in which the note's text is displayed-- Helvetica is the font name, 9 is the font size (in points), and bold is the font style. Any of these parameters can be changed. The font can be any named font on your system. For example, try font = ("Courier 10 italic") and see what you get.
  
  
• Disable word-wrap: Again, in the t = TextWidget line, simply change wrap = "word" to wrap = "none". I'm not sure why you'd want to do this, since you won't get a nifty scrollbar to navigate your note, but it's your option.
  
  
• Change the note's default size: Another arbitrary choice I made when writing the program; and another parameter that can be easily changed. While Rhinote's window can be resized like any other by clicking and dragging, its default size at startup is defined by this line (again, in the code under def Rhinote():):
  
  
  r.geometry("240x255")
  
  
  In this example, 240 is the width (in pixels) and 255 the height. Either can be changed to whatever value you wish.
  
  
• Disable the "File Saved" dialog: You might find the "File Saved" pop-up annoying every time you save a file (since an asterisk in Rhinote's titlebar indicates whether or not changes to a file have been saved). To disable it, look for the following line:
  
  
  tkMessageBox.showinfo ("FYI","File Saved")
  
  
  It occurs twice in the code: at the end of the def save_file function, and again at the end of def save_file_as. Simply comment out the lines (with a # at the beginning) or delete them, and this potentially-annoying feature will be gone.
  
  
• Change Rhinote's default keybindings: In choosing which keys to assign to Rhinote's command set, I simply followed the more-or-less established conventions of many of the simpler GUI-based text editors. If you don't like my choices, feel free to change them: you'll find the keybindings in the def __init__ section of the source, near the end of the file. I suppose you could even make Rhinote's commands behave just like their counterparts in GNU Emacs; though I can't imagine why anyone would want to. ;)