From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Keybinding nit Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:53:57 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <85d58p7hyu.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87zmbti4zh.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161277018 23376 80.91.229.2 (19 Oct 2006 16:56:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:56:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 19 18:56:55 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GabBd-0004pl-FN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:56:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GabBc-0001y6-3f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:56:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GabBM-0001uE-8J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:55:48 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GabBJ-0001kx-Gt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:55:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GabBI-0001kk-PK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:55:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GabBI-0007jy-8A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:55:44 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GabAK-0004Vm-Cn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:54:44 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:54:44 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:54:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) In-Reply-To: <87zmbti4zh.fsf@catnip.gol.com> 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:60926 Archived-At: Miles Bader wrote: > Peter Lee 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. But that's not what Peter wrote; he's using the same `C-x' prefix in all cases, just varying the case of the final key: >> C-x 4 k - kill other buffer >> C-x 4 K - kill other buffer and delete the window >> >> C-x k - kill buffer >> C-x K - kill buffer and delete the window -- Kevin