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Re: Opening Up More Keymaps Re: Standardizing more key bindings?
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T.V Raman |
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Re: Opening Up More Keymaps Re: Standardizing more key bindings? |
Date: |
Wed, 30 Sep 2020 14:37:14 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
Splitting the discussion into "free up C-z" and "what shall we use it
for if available" is a good recipe in general to avoid deadlock.
In general I step back to saying emacs needs more keys --- 20 years ago
when I mostly never used a laptop as often, I even considered getting a
foot-pedal.
>>>> that's an interesting perspective. Am surprized that you feel tty users
>>>> would find C-z z significantly harder than just C-z as the key to
>>>> suspend Emacs.
>>> I assume tty users have "C-z to suspend" hardwired in their fingers and
>>> would be quite surprised if any application decides to use another binding
>>> for it.
>> That's correct, except if that application uses C-z C-z to
>> suspend. Repeating a key until it produces the expected effect is also
>> something tty users are used to do. For example repeating C-c until the
>> program aborts.
>
> Very good point, there are cases where `C-z` needs to be repeated
> (e.g. to suspend editing a commit message in "Zile launched by Git" ;-)
>
> I usually consider those as bugs, but it does make `C-z C-z` into
> a viable option. Obviously, not a good option if you want to bind `C-z`
> to `undo` but viable if you want to use `C-z` for a new keymap ;-)
>
>
> Stefan
>
>
--
Thanks,
--Raman
?7?4 Id: kg:/m/0285kf1 ?0?8
- Re: Opening Up More Keymaps Re: Standardizing more key bindings?, (continued)
- Re: Opening Up More Keymaps Re: Standardizing more key bindings?, Stefan Monnier, 2020/09/30
- Re: Opening Up More Keymaps Re: Standardizing more key bindings?, T.V Raman, 2020/09/30
- Re: Opening Up More Keymaps Re: Standardizing more key bindings?, Noam Postavsky, 2020/09/30
- Re: Opening Up More Keymaps Re: Standardizing more key bindings?, T.V Raman, 2020/09/30
- Re: Opening Up More Keymaps Re: Standardizing more key bindings?, chad, 2020/09/30
- Re: Opening Up More Keymaps Re: Standardizing more key bindings?, T.V Raman, 2020/09/30
- Re: Opening Up More Keymaps Re: Standardizing more key bindings?, Stefan Monnier, 2020/09/30
- Re: Opening Up More Keymaps Re: Standardizing more key bindings?, T.V Raman, 2020/09/30
- Re: Opening Up More Keymaps Re: Standardizing more key bindings?, Gregory Heytings, 2020/09/30
- Re: Opening Up More Keymaps Re: Standardizing more key bindings?, Stefan Monnier, 2020/09/30
- Re: Opening Up More Keymaps Re: Standardizing more key bindings?,
T.V Raman <=
- Re: Opening Up More Keymaps Re: Standardizing more key bindings?, Stefan Monnier, 2020/09/30
- Re: Opening Up More Keymaps Re: Standardizing more key bindings?, T.V Raman, 2020/09/30
- Re: Opening Up More Keymaps Re: Standardizing more key bindings?, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/30
- Re: Opening Up More Keymaps Re: Standardizing more key bindings?, Stefan Monnier, 2020/09/30
Re: Standardizing more key bindings?, yarnton, 2020/09/27