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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Sebastian Urban <mrsebastianurban@gmail.com>,
	37447@debbugs.gnu.org, Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Subject: bug#37447: 26.3; Commands on <delete> and <backspace>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 17:59:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85o8zgj6bi.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <077979fb-c46c-495d-9d91-ed94b619cb25@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Thu, 19 Sep 2019 14:17:29 -0700 (PDT)")

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> But if a safer solution is possible, then I'd recommend
>> binding one of C- or M- prefixes to sexp killing commands
>> because their default prefix C-M- can't be used: C-M-DEL
>> runs system shutdown, and C-M-<backspace> kills the X server.

> FWIW, `C-M-k' for `kill-sexp', and `C-M-<backspace>
> for `backward-kill-sexp', work on at least some
> platforms, such as MS Windows. 

FWIW, recent (since around 2007~2010 from what I see on the web) Xorg
disables C-M-<backspace> as the kill X server by default.





  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-19 21:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-18 11:45 bug#37447: 26.3; Commands on <delete> and <backspace> Sebastian Urban
2019-09-18 12:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-18 13:18   ` Sebastian Urban
2019-09-19 20:31     ` Juri Linkov
2019-09-19 21:17       ` Drew Adams
2019-09-19 21:59         ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2019-09-19 22:13           ` Juri Linkov
2019-09-21 15:41             ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-09-20  8:17 ` Sebastian Urban
2019-09-20  8:36   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-20  9:17     ` Sebastian Urban
2019-09-20  9:31       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-20 10:32         ` Sebastian Urban
2019-09-20 12:46           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-20 16:22             ` Sebastian Urban
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-11-24 19:12 bug#29430: 26.0.90; C-M-backspace is undefined Devon Sean McCullough
2017-11-24 19:28 ` Noam Postavsky
2022-03-23 13:30   ` bug#37447: 26.3; Commands on <delete> and <backspace> Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-03-23 14:35     ` Drew Adams

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