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Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages
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Ulrich Mueller |
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Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages |
Date: |
Mon, 08 Feb 2021 22:37:57 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1.91 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> On Mon, 08 Feb 2021, Gregory Heytings wrote:
>>> It is proposed to repurpose one key, and to reserve it in the key
>>> binding conventions for third-party packages. The keys that could
>>> be reserved for that purpose are:
>>>
>>> Option 1. C-z, with a single exception: "C-z C-z" would be bound to
>>> "suspend-frame"
>>
>> Please don't. C-z is bound to "suspend" since a very long time (it's
>> even mentioned in Craig Finseth's book), and it is one of the few
>> keys that has an universal meaning on the tty in Unix like systems,
>> across applications.
>>
>> Also, it would be a large pain to use anything other than a single
>> key for this function.
> Do you really mean that it is "a large pain" to type "C-z C-z" (three
> keypresses) instead of "C-z" (two keypresses)? For something you don't
> do frequently?
I'd say that at least on a tty I use C-z more frequently than several
other control keys.
How about C-\ or C-^? Historically these were used as substitutes for
C-s and C-q when editing via serial lines (and there's still a function
enable-flow-control that activates it). Certainly that's no longer a
frequent use case?
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, (continued)
- RE: [External] : Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Drew Adams, 2021/02/10
- RE: [External] : Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Drew Adams, 2021/02/10
- Re: [External] : Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Stefan Monnier, 2021/02/10
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Richard Stallman, 2021/02/11
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Gregory Heytings, 2021/02/11
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Jean Louis, 2021/02/12
Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Ulrich Mueller, 2021/02/08
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Gregory Heytings, 2021/02/08
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages,
Ulrich Mueller <=
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Gregory Heytings, 2021/02/08
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Sean Whitton, 2021/02/09
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Gregory Heytings, 2021/02/09
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Ulrich Mueller, 2021/02/09
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Gregory Heytings, 2021/02/09
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Thibaut Verron, 2021/02/09
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Gregory Heytings, 2021/02/09
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Thibaut Verron, 2021/02/09
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Gregory Heytings, 2021/02/09
Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Stefan Monnier, 2021/02/09