From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Keybinding nit
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:22:42 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zmbti4zh.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ud58plbpb.fsf@gmail.com> (Peter Lee's message of "Wed\, 18 Oct 2006 13\:29\:20 -0500")
Peter Lee <pete.a.lee@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm not sure why Emacs, in general, doesn't leverage the upper-case
> binding for variations on a command. It seems intuitive to me.
Well at least historically, I suppose one reason is because such
combinations (control + shift) don't work on ttys.
Perhaps they'd make sense as "optional" bindings these days, but if you
do that _too_ much, there's a risk of tilting the entire keybinding
scheme in a way that makes tty usage more difficult.
-Miles
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all of life's problems' --Homer J. Simpson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-18 23:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-18 15:37 Keybinding nit David Kastrup
2006-10-18 18:29 ` Peter Lee
2006-10-18 23:22 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2006-10-19 16:53 ` Kevin Rodgers
2006-10-23 1:43 ` Miles Bader
2006-10-24 22:11 ` Kevin Rodgers
2006-10-24 23:29 ` Miles Bader
2006-10-25 21:38 ` Kevin Rodgers
2006-10-19 12:56 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-19 13:07 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-19 20:06 ` Nick Roberts
2006-10-19 20:46 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-19 21:19 ` Nick Roberts
2006-10-19 21:37 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-20 16:09 ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-10-20 5:40 ` Jan D.
2006-10-20 7:43 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-20 19:13 ` Drew Adams
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