From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: S-backspace Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 16:22:10 -0600 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3ED7D992.6060803@yahoo.com> References: <20030527141845.GA13165@gnu.org> <200305290146.h4T1kBV18272@eel.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054333528 25928 80.91.224.249 (30 May 2003 22:25:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 22:25:28 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat May 31 00:25:26 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 19LsIY-0006fb-00 for ; Sat, 31 May 2003 00:24:31 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19LsXu-0003lO-00 for ; Sat, 31 May 2003 00:40:22 +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 19LsIY-000777-Vb for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 30 May 2003 18:24:30 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19LsHo-00063d-Me for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 May 2003 18:23:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19LsHd-0005dD-S7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 May 2003 18:23:34 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19LsGB-0003y5-CZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 May 2003 18:22:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19LsE1-0006OD-00 for ; Sat, 31 May 2003 00:19:49 +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 19LsDz-0006Nr-00 for ; Sat, 31 May 2003 00:19:47 +0200 Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us 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:14508 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:14508 Richard Stallman wrote: > All in all, the situation created by XFree86 and Linux is a confusing > one. Given that XFree86 turns off the Linux handling of C-M-delete as > a command to reboot, shouldn't it use C-M-delete for killing the X > server, rather than C-M-backspace? That way, one key would be used by > the system for two similar purposes depending on the situation, and > the other key would always be available for other programs. Wouldn't it be nice if the kernel, OS, window system, and window manager could be queried to find out which keys each of them traps to kill/restart itself? -- Kevin Rodgers