From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rupert Swarbrick Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs-w3m question Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:02:37 +0000 Organization: albasani.net Message-ID: References: <87vdvdu4mp.fsf@literaturlatenight.de> <74160b46-e541-436a-a776-c8bd53d6cd55@o4g2000pra.googlegroups.com> <1f28a20e-0c9f-4478-a85c-27ae40ed7fc9@v16g2000prc.googlegroups.com> <4d476218-bd76-4d41-8a12-1428dfba9e9b@s9g2000prg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226004052 21667 80.91.229.12 (6 Nov 2008 20:40:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 20:40:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 06 21:41:55 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KyBfu-0002o4-Q0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:41:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50822 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KyBen-0005IT-C5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:40:45 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news.albasani.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 40 Original-X-Trace: news.albasani.net xSjpxqkeHgaO6OCJiaBTsn3510LtaS+DLkyyBfvKSkbq4LSgT3+6SvC8AXdqOyt00NYMkwIaEzWsJGKgFW7OnVvwR5/ULb7sIVDRMYq9v9bj9DJ4mjc489oja0ZT875R Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@albasani.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 20:02:44 +0000 (UTC) X-User-ID: SZChsenTPHMVpBsjoMV14CFqcVUlHm+wL2fkHbgLU8o= Cancel-Lock: sha1:fPknM4yKhxN0t2dDGH+jWDtfdHs= User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-NNTP-Posting-Host: hU4v1fl4UUcM4fiPQEST05PymUq2JXF15kAZsKjquic= Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:164187 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:59519 Archived-At: --=-=-= Alan Mackenzie writes: >> For historical reasons, emacs does not use any keybindings involving >> the Shift with a letter. (e.g. there's no ???Meta Shift a???, or ???Control >> Shift a???) This is so because in early computing environment, Ctrl+Shift >> +???letter??? cannot be distinguished from the non-Shift version, due to a >> practical combination of ASCII???, Computer terminal???, telnet???. > > Even today, these combinations are only usable on some of Emacs's target > environments, so it's not a brilliant idea to make standard bindings out > of them. However, that leaves a massive amount of space for personal key > bindings. They're awkward to type, though. > Indeed. I'm reading (and writing) this using gnus. On emacs. On a machine about 8 miles away. Using ssh with cygwin (eugh). Because of some weird problems with cygwin deleting frames if you accidentally mouse-2 on them (!), I'm using the new multiheaded emacs and emacsclient -nw. Anyway, stuff Ctrl-Shift-blah. For me, Ctrl-h is indistinguishable from DEL! Rupert --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iJwEAQECAAYFAkkTTV4ACgkQRtd/pJbYVobLKgQAlelaqKz4zP8Ii9K2MqDN+bNM Sm9AIMz2xlGRNSCivAGOu7zRkkJTTToYfgdxYCm8NDHgVhDH/AnQtWwreLZEhThu FEnHfUBml6v+qnbPdmtvAWYjWYxIoLdEWWiP6kyJss+TEiujpN95eBoEqU7sczhS 8EkPDhafpRKC4CnSZ+w= =JT5w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--