From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Lars Brinkhoff Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Meaning behind Control-G Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2020 05:58:33 +0000 Organization: nocrew Message-ID: <7wv9ka3t6e.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> References: <70bb51fd-447d-928c-4d69-1c9673a44471@online.de> <871rnnvmdx.fsf@red-bean.com> <87pnb7sira.fsf@red-bean.com> <87lflcg0k9.fsf@red-bean.com> <0f1cd319-fa8c-4453-b909-fdd36f337906@default> <87zh9scdf8.fsf@warpmail.net> <7w367f6y81.fsf_-_@junk.nocrew.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="82003"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:tulGLvGI9qihZ0YK8oia7Z1ytk0= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 02 07:59:19 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jfzxH-000LGe-Jf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2020 07:59:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51414 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jfzxG-0000rU-JX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2020 01:59:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39662) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jfzwe-0000Ko-HN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2020 01:58:40 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([159.69.161.202]:59780) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jfzwd-0005IL-Tf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2020 01:58:40 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jfzwb-000KTR-QP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2020 07:58:37 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=159.69.161.202; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/06/02 01:58:38 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=_AUTOLEARN X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:251752 Archived-At: > Stefan Monnier wrote: >> FWIW, the link between C-g and "BEL" is pretty clear: it must be >> [G]raham [Bel]l That's a good one! Say, was he an early agent 007? Paul Eggert wrote: > The best person to ask exactly why C-g was assigned to BEL would be > Bob Bemer That's interesting too but the question was, why is Control-G "quit" in Emacs?