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Re: The correspondence of the command-name and its key-sequence.


From: Eduardo Ochs
Subject: Re: The correspondence of the command-name and its key-sequence.
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2021 15:47:39 -0300

A few months ago someone suggested
that C-g means "get out", but I couldn't
find the message...
  [[]],
    Eduardo Ochs
    http;//angg.twu.net/#eev

On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 at 14:39, Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >                                        To summarize, why use C-g to
> > represent the command keyboard-quit, instead of other more directly
> > related forms, say, C-q.
>
> Previously, on emacs-devel:
> <M8Qc6iq--3-2@tutanota.com>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-05/msg03273.html
>
> Followed by:
> <7w367f6y81.fsf_-_@junk.nocrew.org>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-06/msg00009.html
>
> My personal takeaway:
>
> Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org> writes:
>
> > Now, why TECO uses Control-G for "quit", I don't know.  ASCII "BEL" as
> > an "alarm" is a plausible theory, but hard to verify.  In general
> > there's no strong link between control characteras as inputs and their
> > corresponding output behaviour.
>



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