From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: AW: delete-selection-mode Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:12:56 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4BA0CDF9.40707@online.de> <76682E4761EA432EB929E5E199B0F92A@us.oracle.com> <87wrxb57e1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <20100317.200901.408057447.hanche@math.ntnu.no> <87sk7y2gh9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <69FB036BE1D649E0B76B257ED3D3F6EA@us.oracle.com> <87vdcs13fp.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269112399 24559 80.91.229.12 (20 Mar 2010 19:13:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:13:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'David Kastrup' , Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 20 20:13:14 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nt46j-0006aw-UE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:13:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40008 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nt46j-0003xi-Ca for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:13:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nt46Z-0003uq-5s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:13:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40405 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nt46W-0003tl-Sx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:13:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nt46V-00059X-Pm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:13:00 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:21421 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nt46T-00058k-Fa; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:12:57 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAFe7pEtFpZMX/2dsb2JhbACbPHS8J4R9BIsd X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.51,279,1267419600"; d="scan'208";a="58671012" Original-Received: from 69-165-147-23.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.147.23]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 20 Mar 2010 15:12:57 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id DACEB7FBC; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:12:56 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87vdcs13fp.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:32:19 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:122378 Archived-At: >>> C-g *is* a problem. Not just because of the bell, but also because of >>> the slight time delay (caused by the bell); because it flushes the >>> key buffer; because it interrupts a macro-recoding, ... >>> It's not the end of the world, but it's not a very >>> satisfactory answer. >> Then let's find another key to (only) deactivate. > ESC ESC ESC runs the command keyboard-escape-quit, > which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `simple.el'. If the side-effects of C-g are considered problematic, then I think it's pretty clear that the additional side effects of ESC ESC ESC will be even less acceptable. Stefan