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From: "Kévin Le Gouguec" <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com>
To: Thibaut Verron <thibaut.verron@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>, emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Patch for emacs/basic.texi
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 08:20:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7rymedg.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFsi02T1pC0y5Cqhbv7T3WGCru3UN3w+A=oqjmhZWJjKh4XWNQ@mail.gmail.com> (Thibaut Verron's message of "Wed, 16 Sep 2020 08:00:05 +0200")

Thibaut Verron <thibaut.verron@gmail.com> writes:

>> diff --git a/doc/emacs/basic.texi b/doc/emacs/basic.texi
>> index abb385f53d..2372ce972d 100644
>> --- a/doc/emacs/basic.texi
>> +++ b/doc/emacs/basic.texi
>> @@ -461,6 +461,11 @@ Normally, this command undoes the last change, moving point back to
>>  where it was before the change.  The undo command applies only to
>>  changes in the buffer; you can't use it to undo cursor motion.
>>
>> +  On a graphics terminal, the easiest way to invoke @code{undo} is
>> +with @kbd{C-/}; that doesn't need the shift key.  On a text terminal,
>> +@kbd{C-/} does not exist, but usually you can type @kbd{C-_} without
>> +the shift key and it will work anyway.
>> +
>
> Does this only make sense with a qwerty keyboard?

This advice probably isn't universal, indeed.  E.g. with AZERTY
keyboards, one needs to hit shift to get a slash, while no shift key is
needed for underscores.  Therefore I always undo with C-_.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-16  6:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-16  5:05 Patch for emacs/basic.texi Richard Stallman
2020-09-16  5:14 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-16 14:17   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-16 15:11     ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-16  6:00 ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-16  6:20   ` Kévin Le Gouguec [this message]
2020-09-16  6:53     ` Andreas Schwab
2020-09-16  9:19       ` Antoine Kalmbach
2020-09-16 15:43         ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-09-16 16:59           ` Drew Adams
2020-09-16 18:26             ` Repeating commands (was: Patch for emacs/basic.texi) Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-09-16 12:40       ` Patch for emacs/basic.texi Stefan Kangas
2020-09-17  3:53         ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-18  4:04   ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-18  6:09     ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-18  6:35       ` Mathias Dahl
2020-09-16 13:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-17  3:57   ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-18  7:53 ` Eli Zaretskii

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