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Re: Ctrl-[ ?


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Ctrl-[ ?
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2019 17:37:56 +0300

> From: Clément Pit-Claudel <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 09:26:54 -0400
> 
> > Why is it useful to have different behavior on GUI and TTY frames?
> 
> It's not so much that it's useful to have different behavior; rather, there 
> are limitations that only TTY frames suffer from, and if you mostly or always 
> use GUI frames, it's nice not to suffer from these limitations.

That's not the same.  C-[ being the same as ESC is very basic, like
C-g, so having to remember that it might not work on GUI frames would
be a PITA at least for me.

> So I guess keeping a consistent experience in TTY and GUI frames isn't as 
> important for me as improving the experience in GUI frames.

IMO, being able to bind C-[ to something else is not an important
feature, not enough to break the compatibility.  But that's me.



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