From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>,
Sebastian Urban <mrsebastianurban@gmail.com>
Cc: 37447@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37447: 26.3; Commands on <delete> and <backspace>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 14:17:29 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <077979fb-c46c-495d-9d91-ed94b619cb25@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877e64qgby.fsf@mail.linkov.net>
> But if a safer solution is possible, then I'd recommend
> binding one of C- or M- prefixes to sexp killing commands
> because their default prefix C-M- can't be used: C-M-DEL
> runs system shutdown, and C-M-<backspace> kills the X server.
> There is a replacement C-M-k for kill-sexp, but no key
> for backward-kill-sexp.
Please don't use just `C-' or just `M-' for sexp
commands. Please use the conventional `C-M-'.
FWIW, `C-M-k' for `kill-sexp', and `C-M-<backspace>
for `backward-kill-sexp', work on at least some
platforms, such as MS Windows.
And for uses of Meta that are problematic for some
platforms, users can always use ESC. E.g. `ESC C-k'
instead of `C-M-k' or `ESC C-<delete>' for
`C-M-<delete>'. Admittedly not as handy, but usable
(and users with that problem can always rebind them).
(BTW, did you mean `C-M-<delete>' instead of `C-M-DEL'?
The latter doesn't seem to be bound by default.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-19 21:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-18 11:45 bug#37447: 26.3; Commands on <delete> and <backspace> Sebastian Urban
2019-09-18 12:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-18 13:18 ` Sebastian Urban
2019-09-19 20:31 ` Juri Linkov
2019-09-19 21:17 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2019-09-19 21:59 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-09-19 22:13 ` Juri Linkov
2019-09-21 15:41 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-09-20 8:17 ` Sebastian Urban
2019-09-20 8:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-20 9:17 ` Sebastian Urban
2019-09-20 9:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-20 10:32 ` Sebastian Urban
2019-09-20 12:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-20 16:22 ` Sebastian Urban
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-11-24 19:12 bug#29430: 26.0.90; C-M-backspace is undefined Devon Sean McCullough
2017-11-24 19:28 ` Noam Postavsky
2022-03-23 13:30 ` bug#37447: 26.3; Commands on <delete> and <backspace> Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-03-23 14:35 ` Drew Adams
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