Chris Jones wrote: > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 11:02:03AM EDT, Barclay, Daniel wrote: ... > >> Yes, C-h in Emacs should perform some kind of backspace operation >> (back-deletion or at least movement), since C-h in ASCII is the >> Backspace character. > > I believe that like C-S/C-Q and friends this belongs in the terminal > driver's psyche - it's at a lower level and already lived there long > before the applications came along.
Yeah, I was going to mention Stallman's rant about C-s and its invalidity due to exactly what you menion--that C-s/C-q were used in modems and serial port drivers long before Emacs existed. > I use "<" and ">" to move between tabs in the Elinks browser.. both > mnemonic and useable. Ctr+PageUp/PageDn in seamonkey is somewhat > mnemonic, but does not quite deliver in terms of "useability". > > And please don't get me started on "discoverability".. You mean like when Windows, for some idiotic reason, _stopped_ putting underlines under keyboard accelerator-key letters in menu items? Daniel -- (Plain text sometimes corrupted to HTML "courtesy" of Microsoft Exchange.) [F]
