From: Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev@gmx.net>
Cc: jorussel@cisco.com, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: FW: Emacs non-ascii characters
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:58:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200511220058.00601.pogonyshev@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICOECCCPAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>
Drew Adams wrote:
> On some keyboards (like mine) the `\' key is right next to the Backspace
> key, which makes `C-\' very close to `C-Backspace'.
>
> Right. I forgot about that one. I'd say, in sum, that with lots of common keyboards it is quite easy to hit `C-\' by mistake.
>
> That said, I always
> use `M-Backspace' and I don't think it is a good idea to change such a
> commonly-used shortcut as `C-\' at all.
>
> That was my question: whether "it needs to be on a quickly hit key." If it is quick and handy for those who use it, then fine.
I'd say that it is just not worth the problems of all the users out
there to change an established shortcut. Even if you hit it by
accident, that's not a major problem. It's not like `C-M-Backspace'
that restarts the X server.
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-21 22:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-21 19:26 FW: Emacs non-ascii characters Drew Adams
2005-11-21 19:40 ` Henrik Enberg
2005-11-21 22:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-21 22:24 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-21 23:20 ` Jason Rumney
2005-11-21 23:27 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-21 23:36 ` John Russell (jorussel)
2005-11-22 0:38 ` David Kastrup
2005-11-25 7:37 ` Kenichi Handa
2005-11-25 10:14 ` Jason Rumney
2005-11-25 14:37 ` Aidan Kehoe
2005-11-25 14:51 ` Jason Rumney
2005-11-25 22:49 ` Aidan Kehoe
2005-11-26 4:23 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-26 7:46 ` Kenichi Handa
2005-11-26 8:20 ` Kenichi Handa
2005-11-26 9:33 ` David Kastrup
2005-11-26 9:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-27 0:31 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-05 7:40 ` Kenichi Handa
2005-11-21 22:27 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2005-11-21 22:29 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-21 22:58 ` Paul Pogonyshev [this message]
2005-11-21 23:14 ` Jason Rumney
2005-11-25 8:13 ` Miles Bader
2005-11-22 2:21 ` Richard M. Stallman
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