On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Kris Maglione <maglion...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 10:22:05AM +0200, Uriel wrote: >> >> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Connor Lane Smith <c...@lubutu.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hey, >>> >>> On 06/08/2010, Daniel Clemente <dcl441-b...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> This adds C-d (delete next char) and C-g (abort) to dmenu. These keys >>>> are >>>> also used in programs like bash or Emacs. >>> >>> I've added C-d but not C-g, since it seems like an emacsism. >> >> Both are emacsisms as far as I can tell, and of little use (specialy >> given ^C already aborts). > > So do Escape and ^[. C-g, unfortunately, is also used by mutt, which doesn't > recognize <Esc> at all. C-d means EOF. It's always meant EOF and I've never > known it to mean delete-char, although I'm aware that in emacs it does.
Indeed, ^D meaning anything other than EOF is an abomination. > >> For the 'canonical' list of Unix keybindings see: http://unix-kb.cat-v.org > > Whose canon? My canon ;P uriel > -- > Kris Maglione > > If you think your management doesn't know what it's doing or that your > organisation turns out low-quality software crap that embarrasses you, > then leave. > --Edward Yourdon > > >
