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From: ams@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt)
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Patch for emacs/basic.texi
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 11:11:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1kIZ5M-00019l-3g@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83y2l97qll.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 16 Sep 2020 17:17:58 +0300)

   >    +  On a graphics terminal, the easiest way to invoke @code{undo} is
   >    +with @kbd{C-/}; that doesn't need the shift key.  On a text terminal,
   >    +@kbd{C-/} does not exist, but usually you can type @kbd{C-_} without
   >    +the shift key and it will work anyway.
   > 
   > That doesn't work on my terminal (wsvt25 or xterm with TERM=vt100);
   > where one has to press C-_ (shifted).  C-- ignores the Control key,
   > and does a self-insert-command on ?-.

   Richard's text says "usually", so I guess it doesn't need to be
   correct always?

I tried several more terminals, none of them worked with C-- --
usually usually means that it usually works -- at least sometimes.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-16 15:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-16  5:05 Patch for emacs/basic.texi Richard Stallman
2020-09-16  5:14 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-16 14:17   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-16 15:11     ` Alfred M. Szmidt [this message]
2020-09-16  6:00 ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-16  6:20   ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-09-16  6:53     ` Andreas Schwab
2020-09-16  9:19       ` Antoine Kalmbach
2020-09-16 15:43         ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-09-16 16:59           ` Drew Adams
2020-09-16 18:26             ` Repeating commands (was: Patch for emacs/basic.texi) Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-09-16 12:40       ` Patch for emacs/basic.texi Stefan Kangas
2020-09-17  3:53         ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-18  4:04   ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-18  6:09     ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-18  6:35       ` Mathias Dahl
2020-09-16 13:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-17  3:57   ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-18  7:53 ` Eli Zaretskii

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