From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Ctrl-[ ? Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2019 02:31:50 +0200 Message-ID: <87muisor2h.fsf@telefonica.net> References: <08AC8151-5911-40FA-8B20-818B839D00AB@traduction-libre.org> <86h892nk2g.fsf@zoho.eu> <9379C01B-80E3-49DD-B830-46CED773DC2C@traduction-libre.org> <83lfydrkde.fsf@gnu.org> <874l51q0s4.fsf@telefonica.net> <83ef45rdij.fsf@gnu.org> <87zhmto6fa.fsf@telefonica.net> <20190607163017.GA32029@tuxteam.de> <96B116FC-8007-4C42-9AE6-585530D0C76E@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="209994"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 08 02:32:45 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hZPHn-000sVC-IV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Jun 2019 02:32:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54606 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hZPHm-0007x8-AA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2019 20:32:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55231) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hZPH8-0007wy-Ed for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2019 20:32:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hZPH4-0004aC-Nj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2019 20:32:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=45920 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hZPH4-0004YA-FH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2019 20:31:58 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hZPH2-000rhp-23 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Jun 2019 02:31:56 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:7FrjbxHrcrEOP/5mANi0zyc+rBw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:120826 Archived-At: Francis Belliveau writes: > I think that a lot of you are missing the point that was made early on > in the discussion. This mapping of ASCII cntrol characters is a > definition made by convention since the day of the Teletype machines. > It is how the ASCII character set was defined. So what? Why a GUI user should be inconvenienced or prevented to bind C-i, C-[, etc. to whatever he pleases the same way he binds any other key combination? You can't bind C-[ on a terminal, because there is a technical limitation, ok. But why you can't bind it either on a GUI, where the technical limitation does not exist?