Re: The correspondence of the command-name and its key-sequence.

[Kévin Le Gouguec]

Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:

>                                        To summarize, why use C-g to
> represent the command keyboard-quit, instead of other more directly
> related forms, say, C-q.

Previously, on emacs-devel:
<M8Qc6iq--3-2@tutanota.com>
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-05/msg03273.html

Followed by:
<7w367f6y81.fsf_-_@junk.nocrew.org>
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-06/msg00009.html

My personal takeaway:

Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org> writes:

> Now, why TECO uses Control-G for "quit", I don't know.  ASCII "BEL" as
> an "alarm" is a plausible theory, but hard to verify.  In general
> there's no strong link between control characteras as inputs and their
> corresponding output behaviour.