From: Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs@gmail.com>
To: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>,
help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: The correspondence of the command-name and its key-sequence.
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2021 15:47:39 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADs++6jauC1-3a3DMxNNEqCQ7Wqf=wvE=-82Yyfq3T_GeJ4Xuw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bldyc8nf.fsf@gmail.com>
A few months ago someone suggested
that C-g means "get out", but I couldn't
find the message...
[[]],
Eduardo Ochs
http;//angg.twu.net/#eev
On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 at 14:39, Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > To summarize, why use C-g to
> > represent the command keyboard-quit, instead of other more directly
> > related forms, say, C-q.
>
> Previously, on emacs-devel:
> <M8Qc6iq--3-2@tutanota.com>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-05/msg03273.html
>
> Followed by:
> <7w367f6y81.fsf_-_@junk.nocrew.org>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-06/msg00009.html
>
> My personal takeaway:
>
> Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org> writes:
>
> > Now, why TECO uses Control-G for "quit", I don't know. ASCII "BEL" as
> > an "alarm" is a plausible theory, but hard to verify. In general
> > there's no strong link between control characteras as inputs and their
> > corresponding output behaviour.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-09 18:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-09 6:05 The correspondence of the command-name and its key-sequence Hongyi Zhao
2021-01-09 6:32 ` Drew Adams
2021-01-09 7:16 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-01-09 8:23 ` Omar Polo
2021-01-09 9:33 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-01-09 10:00 ` Omar Polo
2021-01-11 8:04 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-01-11 8:20 ` Omar Polo
2021-01-11 9:51 ` tomas
2021-01-09 17:20 ` Francis Belliveau
2021-01-14 22:21 ` ASCII - Why...? -- as promised Francis Belliveau
2021-01-09 21:21 ` The correspondence of the command-name and its key-sequence Drew Adams
2021-01-09 17:39 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2021-01-09 18:47 ` Eduardo Ochs [this message]
2021-01-09 22:29 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
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