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Re: Opening Up More Keymaps Re: Standardizing more key bindings?


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Opening Up More Keymaps Re: Standardizing more key bindings?
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2020 23:11:04 -0400

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  > Showing a message that C-z no longer suspends Emacs, but if you press
  > z or C-z again it will do that is being helpful.  In ten years time,
  > maybe that message can be removed.

As long as Emacs is used, there will be people who run it on a tty and
don't know how to get out.  If C-c doesn't do it, they will try C-z.
At least one of them should point the way to the exit.

  > Might be worth noting that the behaviour of C-z also dates back to the
  > Lisp Machines where it meant to go back to top-level

I am pretty sure it worked on ITS in 1976.


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Dr Richard Stallman
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