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bug#37447: 26.3; Commands on <delete> and <backspace>
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
bug#37447: 26.3; Commands on <delete> and <backspace> |
Date: |
Thu, 19 Sep 2019 23:31:21 +0300 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> These key bindings are too old to change them in the default
>> configuration.
>
> So inconsistency with 'M-d' and 'M-<delete>' will stay and
> 'C-<backspace>' & 'M-<backspace>' doing the same thing will also stay
> because of history? I could ignore 'C-S-<backspace>', but previous
> two cases should be "updated".
>
> But if "No." means "No." - close the bug, please. Unless we are
> waiting for more opinions.
Imagine many users using the same keys for years, and now
they will start doing the opposite - a recipe for disaster.
But if a safer solution is possible, then I'd recommend
binding one of C- or M- prefixes to sexp killing commands
because their default prefix C-M- can't be used: C-M-DEL
runs system shutdown, and C-M-<backspace> kills the X server.
There is a replacement C-M-k for kill-sexp, but no key
for backward-kill-sexp.
bug#37447: 26.3; Commands on <delete> and <backspace>, Sebastian Urban, 2019/09/20