Re: C-z, C-c, job control commands [was: not good proposal: "C-z <letter>" reserved for users]

[Skip Montanaro]

>
> > As you see on that page, C-c also has a standard meaning, which
> > Emacs doesn't follow.  Besides, the proposal binds "C-z C-z" to
> > "frame-suspend".
>
> I have the hunch (but alas, no evidence) that C-c wasn't as wide
> a consensus for "interrupt" back then as it is now. Possibly,
> C-g was another contender (which would explain C-g's position
> in Emacs today).
>

Just a guess, but was C-g a Multics thing? When I first started using GNU
Emacs it didn't always behave nicely. When you wanted to get a crash dump,
I think two C-g key presses in quick succession were the trick.
Fortunately, Emacs is fairly stable now. :-)

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