Re: not good proposal: "C-z <letter>" reserved for users

[Robert Thorpe]

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:

> On 12.02.2021 07:42, Robert Thorpe wrote:
>
>> I agree with Jean Louis on that too.  I think C-z C-z is not good
>> enough.  Every other terminal application uses C-z by itself, it's a
>> convention.  It's been that way for decades.  If you write a terminal
>> application and do nothing special then C-z will suspend it.  That's
>> because it sends SIGTSTP.
>
> Could we someday stop considering Emacs a "terminal application"? Yes, 
> it has a version that works in the terminal, but it's limited in 
> features compared to the graphical one.

I only use graphical Emacs myself.  But I think that terminal Emacs is
still important, as Jean Louis says.

Lots of people who have started using Emacs recently came to from the
terminal.  You can see that on Emacs Reddit.

I'm not a web developer myself, but it seems to have happened like
this....  Web people put their stuff on test servers to try it out.
Sometimes they prepare it or compile it on their own PC then copy it to
the test server.  To save time some people started developing on the
test server using things like VNC or Microsoft Remote Desktop.  That
removes the copying over step.  Other would do tweaks to the code on the
server by direct editing on the server, but keep the main code on their
own PC.

All that worked until web services became popular.  Then the test server
was no longer a nearby, dedicated server accessed by a fast network.  It
was an instance on a virtualized machine far away.  That has made using
graphical tools to access these test servers less practical.  So, some
people have moved to terminal programs instead.  A terminal editor like
Emacs is very useful for making quick changes on a remote virtual
machine.  That seems to have brought Emacs to a new audience.

BR,
Robert Thorpe