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Re: key to yank text at point into minibuffer?
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Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: key to yank text at point into minibuffer? |
Date: |
Mon, 6 Mar 2006 17:06:57 +0900 |
On 3/6/06, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
> Miles is suggesting deleting the C-S-BS
> binding for kill-whole-line because he believes that many users will
> mistakenly hold down the Meta key rather than the Shift key.
>
> I don't think we need to go that far to avoid the risk someone will
> make an unusual double mistake.
Well it's only one mistake (Alt vs. Shift), not two, but I'm
suggesting this change because I really did make that mistake, not out
of random worry: I noticed the News entry, tried to type C-S-BS to
test this new binding, but my fingers ended up hitting Alt instead,
and killing my entire session. I don't think this happened because of
clumsiness, but rather because Alt is a far, far, more common modifier
in conjunction with Control than Shift is, and muscle memory
apparently treats chorded modifier keys as a unit...
If the consequences of C-Alt-BS weren't so severe, I wouldn't worry
about it -- people mistype all the time -- but they _are_ fairly
severe, so it seems worthy of extra caution.
-Miles
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- Re: key to yank text at point into minibuffer?, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2006/03/02
- Re: key to yank text at point into minibuffer?, Miles Bader, 2006/03/01
- Re: key to yank text at point into minibuffer?, Richard Stallman, 2006/03/02
- Re: key to yank text at point into minibuffer?, Luc Teirlinck, 2006/03/03
- Re: key to yank text at point into minibuffer?, Miles Bader, 2006/03/03
- Re: key to yank text at point into minibuffer?, Richard Stallman, 2006/03/04
- Re: key to yank text at point into minibuffer?, Luc Teirlinck, 2006/03/04
- Re: key to yank text at point into minibuffer?, Richard Stallman, 2006/03/05
- Re: key to yank text at point into minibuffer?,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: key to yank text at point into minibuffer?, Kim F. Storm, 2006/03/07
- Re: key to yank text at point into minibuffer?, Miles Bader, 2006/03/03