From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net,
Emacs-Hacker2017@jovi.net, 37447@debbugs.gnu.org,
29430@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37447: bug#29430: bug#37447: 26.3; Commands on <delete> and <backspace>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 17:27:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lewzcqvx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SJ0PR10MB54884498410B3EF8D6ECB6ABF3199@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (message from Drew Adams on Thu, 24 Mar 2022 15:16:32 +0000)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> CC: "larsi@gnus.org" <larsi@gnus.org>,
> "npostavs@users.sourceforge.net"
> <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>,
> "Emacs-Hacker2017@jovi.net"
> <Emacs-Hacker2017@jovi.net>,
> "37447@debbugs.gnu.org" <37447@debbugs.gnu.org>,
> "29430@debbugs.gnu.org" <29430@debbugs.gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 15:16:32 +0000
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>
> > > > > [C-M-delete] is problematic for MS Windows, no?
> > > >
> > > > Problematic in what sense?
> > >
> > > By default, at least, it's grabbed by Windows.
> >
> > But that hasn't changed just because Emacs now has a binding to that
> > key, has it? IOW, whatever problems Windows users had or didn't have
> > before the change, they still either have or don't have.
>
> Yes, of course. But without binding it by default
> users are less likely to suffer the gotcha.
How so? The probability of users using the key is independent of
whether Emacs does or doesn't define a key binding for it. Besides,
who are those Windows users that don't know about Ctrl-Alt-Del
sequence, and are likely to use it without understanding what they
will get?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-24 15:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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
2017-11-24 20:35 ` Devon Sean McCullough
2017-11-25 23:14 ` Richard Stallman
2017-11-29 18:02 ` Devon Sean McCullough
2022-03-23 13:30 ` bug#37447: 26.3; Commands on <delete> and <backspace> Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-03-23 14:35 ` Drew Adams
2022-03-23 14:56 ` bug#37447: bug#29430: " Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-23 20:49 ` bug#29430: " Drew Adams
2022-03-24 6:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-24 15:16 ` bug#37447: " Drew Adams
2022-03-24 15:27 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-03-24 15:51 ` Drew Adams
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