From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Pogonyshev Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: FW: Emacs non-ascii characters Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:58:00 +0200 Message-ID: <200511220058.00601.pogonyshev@gmx.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1132613982 29102 80.91.229.2 (21 Nov 2005 22:59:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 22:59:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jorussel@cisco.com, Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 21 23:59:34 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EeKbJ-0005H2-NP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:57:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EeKbJ-0004bz-7c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:57:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EeKYi-0003iy-Lp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:54:49 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EeKYg-0003iB-I9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:54:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EeKYg-0003i5-FM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:54:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [213.165.64.20] (helo=mail.gmx.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EeKYg-0001GA-HC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:54:46 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 21 Nov 2005 22:54:44 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (EHLO [194.158.218.198]) [194.158.218.198] by mail.gmx.net (mp020) with SMTP; 21 Nov 2005 23:54:44 +0100 X-Authenticated: #16844820 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:46415 Archived-At: 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