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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
	'Emacs-Devel devel' <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: have cake will eat, eat cake will have - krazy key koncept kontroversy
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:31:39 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <buo1vmwzn1w.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bpm0zps7.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:35:04 +0300")

Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:
>> 11. WDOT?  Is this a good idea in general or not?  If so, do you have
>> a good idea for an implementation of #9?
>
> Cua-mode uses a short delay (`cua-prefix-override-inhibit-delay') to decide
> between interpreting a key as a prefix key or using its own binding.

Note that this sort of test is notoriously flaky, and should only be
used if there's no other choice.  It's far, far, better, to simply avoid
the ambiguity in the first place.

-miles

-- 
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brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.




  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-28  2:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-27  1:36 have cake will eat, eat cake will have - krazy key koncept kontroversy Drew Adams
2009-08-27 17:58 ` Andrey Paramonov
2009-08-27 20:41   ` have cake will eat, eatcake " Drew Adams
2009-08-28  6:35     ` Андрей Парамонов
2009-08-28  9:09       ` Andreas Schwab
2009-08-28  9:16         ` Андрей Парамонов
2009-08-28  9:35           ` Andreas Schwab
2009-08-28 15:34       ` Drew Adams
2009-08-28  0:35 ` have cake will eat, eat cake " Juri Linkov
2009-08-28  2:31   ` Miles Bader [this message]
2009-08-28 15:34     ` Drew Adams

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