From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: 30315@debbugs.gnu.org, Alex Branham <alex.branham@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#30315: [PATCH] keyboard-escape-quit should give option not to delete windows
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 17:28:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m34l4fuhoc.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1ehKUw-0006xZ-5a@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 01 Feb 2018 14:26:14 -0500")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> > I've always found it a bit odd that ESC-ESC-ESC deletes windows, since I
> > think of it as telling Emacs to "stop doing whatever it is you're
> > doing".
>
> Its intended meaning is "Get me back to the default state of things."
> It's meant for people who don't know Emacs very well, to get out of
> any kind of temporary state that they might have got themselves into
> and don't know the command to get out of,
>
> Splitting into multiple windows is one such temporary state.
> So it is right that this gets back to the one-window state.
>
> However, I have no objection to adding this option, if it's
> useful enough to justify its added complexity.
It didn't seem like anybody was really enthusiastic about adding this
complication to this functionality, so I'm closing this bug report.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-24 15:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-01 2:59 bug#30315: [PATCH] keyboard-escape-quit should give option not to delete windows Alex Branham
2018-02-01 19:26 ` Richard Stallman
2019-06-24 15:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2018-02-01 20:29 ` Juri Linkov
2018-02-02 2:15 ` Richard Stallman
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