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


From: Jean Louis
Subject: Re: not good proposal: "C-z <letter>" reserved for users
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2021 09:06:33 +0300
User-agent: Mutt/2.0 (3d08634) (2020-11-07)

* Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> [2021-02-15 03:41]:
> Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> 
> > Because even though "suspend job" is handy to have in the
> > toolset, if an average user only reaches for it twice a year,
> > that command doesn't really need a key binding as prominent as
> > 'C-z'.
> 
> Well, yes, but C-z isn't a good key. You have to move your
> entire hand, and it is awkward (keys too close) at that.

That is what you know on Swedish keyboard. Not everybody is
aware that Z key is often interchanged with Y. There are
QWERTY and QWERTZ keyboards.

Researching about keys requires effort.




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