From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A wish, a plea Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:19:49 +1200 Message-ID: <18043.34341.36642.48273@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: <4679F561.4030600@hacksaw.org> <87y7icpgco.fsf@kfs-lx.testafd.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182500426 7323 80.91.229.12 (22 Jun 2007 08:20:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:20:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 22 10:20:24 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I1eNP-0002jc-IV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:20:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I1eNO-00085Z-Tf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:20:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I1eNB-00081A-Ve for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:20:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I1eNA-00080i-BH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:20:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I1eNA-00080d-5b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:20:04 -0400 Original-Received: from viper.snap.net.nz ([202.37.101.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I1eN9-0005Gq-9z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:20:03 -0400 Original-Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (191.63.255.123.dynamic.snap.net.nz [123.255.63.191]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3EA83D975F; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:19:54 +1200 (NZST) Original-Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0D8B28FBF6; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:19:50 +1200 (NZST) In-Reply-To: <87y7icpgco.fsf@kfs-lx.testafd.dk> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.1.50.4 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:73596 Archived-At: > Since both C-x and C-c are prefix keys, and thus used a lot in > sequence with other keys, C-x C-c has always seemed like a > particularly dangerous binding to me. Add to that the fact that C is next to X and if you miss-hit the X key slightly you can press X then C in quick succession. I've exited a few sessions prematurely that way. > One of the first things I changed when I started to use Emacs was > to change the "kill-emacs" binding to C-x C-c C-x > > (global-set-key "\C-x\C-c" 'nil) > (global-set-key "\C-x\C-c\C-x" 'save-buffers-kill-emacs) > > C-x C-c C-x works really well (it is still easy to type, and I've > never hit it accidentally). -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob