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Re: C-x C-q more useful as toggle-read-only
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Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
Re: C-x C-q more useful as toggle-read-only |
Date: |
Fri, 27 Oct 2000 13:55:42 +0200 |
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miles@gnu.org (Miles Bader) writes:
|> woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods) writes:
|> > The use of `C-^' seems more intuitive for toggle-read-only too. It has
|> > far more symbolic and semantic meanings from various other contexts that
|> > are much better than anything related to `C-q', even without taking into
|> > consideration the potential clash with software flow control.
|>
|> Such as? The only think I can think of is that `^' might be thought of
|> as `toggle' (since it means xor in C), but it's a bit of a stretch from
|> there to toggle-read-only.
|>
|> I personally have this function bound to `M-%' which seems pretty
|> mnemonic to me (since read-only-ness is represented by a `%' in the
|> modeline). I don't know where I picked this up from, I've been using it
|> since at least gosmacs days, if not further back...
|>
|> Of course, one might argue `hey, M-% is bound to query-replace!', but
|> naturally I have that bound to M-q, and ... ad nauseum. On the other
|> hand, `C-x %' is available...
I'd guess `C-x C-q' was taken because is much easier to type.
Andreas.
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- Re: C-x C-q more useful as toggle-read-only, (continued)
- Re: C-x C-q more useful as toggle-read-only, Eli Zaretskii, 2000/10/25
- Re: C-x C-q more useful as toggle-read-only, Francesco Potorti`, 2000/10/25
- Re: C-x C-q more useful as toggle-read-only, Klaus Berndl, 2000/10/25
- Re: C-x C-q more useful as toggle-read-only, Andre Spiegel, 2000/10/26
- Re: C-x C-q more useful as toggle-read-only, Michael J Downes, 2000/10/26
- Re: C-x C-q more useful as toggle-read-only, Eli Zaretskii, 2000/10/26
- Re: C-x C-q more useful as toggle-read-only, Francesco Potorti`, 2000/10/30
- Re: C-x C-q more useful as toggle-read-only, Greg A. Woods, 2000/10/27
- Re: C-x C-q more useful as toggle-read-only, Miles Bader, 2000/10/27
- Re: C-x C-q more useful as toggle-read-only, Eli Zaretskii, 2000/10/27
- Re: C-x C-q more useful as toggle-read-only,
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