From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sam Steingold Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Delete C-M-delete and C-M-backspace Date: 04 Jun 2003 18:49:36 -0400 Organization: disorganization Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: sds@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054769840 14998 80.91.224.249 (4 Jun 2003 23:37:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 23:37:20 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 05 01:37:13 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Nhof-0003t9-00 for ; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 01:37:13 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19Ni6S-00012J-00 for ; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 01:55:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19Nhpz-00072i-Uu for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 19:38:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19Nhko-00059K-7v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 19:33:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19NhcO-00032Q-8k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 19:24:37 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19Nhc0-0002vU-7W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 19:24:08 -0400 Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19NhYh-0002uU-00 for ; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 01:20:43 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Nh2J-0000jb-00 for ; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 00:47:15 +0200 Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org X-Attribution: Sam X-Disclaimer: You should not expect anyone to agree with me. User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:14722 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:14722 rms on 2003-06-03 deleted the C-M-delete and C-M-backspace keybindings. why? OK, I know that C-M-BS kills the X server -- when you do not disable it. (I do). Esc C-BS is not an adequate replacement because it requires 2 keypresses (and I seem to recall that Esc and M were interchangeable, so I am surprized that (define-key esc-map "foo" 'bar) is not the same as (define-key global-map "M-foo" 'bar)) too bad... -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running RedHat9 GNU/Linux If You Want Breakfast In Bed, Sleep In the Kitchen.