Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

Splitting the discussion into "free up C-z" and "what shall we use it
for if available" is a good recipe in general to avoid deadlock.

In general I step back to saying emacs needs more keys --- 20 years ago
when I mostly never used a laptop as often, I even considered getting a
foot-pedal.


>>>> that's an interesting perspective.  Am surprized that you feel tty users
>>>> would find C-z z significantly harder than just C-z as the key to
>>>> suspend Emacs.
>>> I assume tty users have "C-z to suspend" hardwired in their fingers and
>>> would be quite surprised if any application decides to use another binding
>>> for it.
>> That's correct, except if that application uses C-z C-z to
>> suspend.  Repeating a key until it produces the expected effect is also
>> something tty users are used to do.  For example repeating C-c until the
>> program aborts.
>
> Very good point, there are cases where `C-z` needs to be repeated
> (e.g. to suspend editing a commit message in "Zile launched by Git" ;-)
>
> I usually consider those as bugs, but it does make `C-z C-z` into
> a viable option.  Obviously, not a good option if you want to bind `C-z`
> to `undo` but viable if you want to use `C-z` for a new keymap ;-)
>
>
>         Stefan
>
>

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Thanks,

--Raman
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