Re: Opening Up More Keymaps Re: Standardizing more key bindings?

[Lars Brinkhoff]

Richard Stallman wrote:
> > Might be worth noting that the behaviour of C-z also dates back to the
> > Lisp Machines where it meant to go back to top-level
>
> I am pretty sure it worked on ITS in 1976.

It certainly did.  ITS programs can use superimage input mode to
intercept ^Z, but Emacs didn't do that in 1976 or any other year as far
as I can tell.

The Unix meaning of ^Z to suspend the current process group also comes
from ITS.

(This is not a comment on whether Emacs should do something different
about C-z now.)