From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Oliver Scholz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: S-backspace Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 16:24:22 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <8765nyaavu.fsf@gnu.org> <20030525235700.GA32389@gnu.org> <200305260114.h4Q1EFg14553@eel.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053959265 26810 80.91.224.249 (26 May 2003 14:27:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 14:27:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon May 26 16:27:43 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 19KIwd-0006wq-00 for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 16:27:23 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19KJ9s-0004F2-00 for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 16:41:04 +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 19KIxv-00025I-L7 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 26 May 2003 10:28:43 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19KIx8-00022K-RY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 May 2003 10:27:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19KIx5-0001xi-3v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 May 2003 10:27:52 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19KIx4-0001xM-Lk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 May 2003 10:27:50 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19KItx-0006k7-00 for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 16:24:37 +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 19KItE-0006fR-00 for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 16:23:52 +0200 Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org X-Attribution: os X-Face: "HgH2sgK|bfH$; PiOJI6|qUCf.ve<51_Od(%ynHr?=>znn#~#oS>",F%B8&\vus),2AsPYb -n>PgddtGEn}s7kH?7kH{P_~vu?]OvVN^qD(L)>G^gDCl(U9n{:d>'DkilN!_K"eNzjrtI4Ya6;Td% IZGMbJ{lawG+'J>QXPZD&TwWU@^~A}f^zAb[Ru;CT(UA]c& User-Agent: Gnus/5.090019 (Oort Gnus v0.19) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:aL+90BIdlJMEQEcKDXzMU8PgWf8= 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:14286 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:14286 Luc Teirlinck writes: > Miles Bader wrote: > > On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 01:01:57AM +0200, Alex Schroeder wrote: > > In the new CVS, runs the command kill-whole-line. > > I'm hitting it about twice a day by accident, confusing me. > > Can we reconsider this recent keybinding addition? > > Yeah, I also find shift is somewhat easier to hit accidentally than > other modifiers, presumably because it usually has no effect, so my > fingers have gotten into the habit of not releasing it very quickly > after entering shifted letter. So for instance if I accidentally > enter `M' when I meant to enter `m', I tend to hit the DEL key > while my brain is still processing the `release shift' concept, so > end up hitting S-DEL about 50% of the time... > > What about . [...] Uh, shift is right above ctrl on my keyboard and it is a bit larger then ctrl. I can see myself hitting `M-C-' accidentally when working under X. Oliver -- 7 Prairial an 211 de la Révolution Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité!