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Re: Ctrl-D [message #7477 is a reply to message #7359]

Sat, 16 November 1996 00:00

Tim Patterson
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Registered: October 1995

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Andilu wrote:
>
>>> does anyone know of a way to disable the Ctrl-D key when running on a
>>> Unix system, or even better set it to what it does in Emacs (delete a
>>> character in command line)? I like the way the emacs control
>

>> I have this same problem. I've gone so far as to complain to RSI about
>> it, and the response I got was "Well...but people are used to the status
>> quo and would complain about the change." (More or less anyway.)
>
> I agree with RSI. You can't just take away a long-standing feature.

Well, it is only a feature on the Unix versions of IDL. On the VMS
version,
CRTRL-D moves back one character instead (LEFT ARROW behaviour).
On my system CTRL-D doesn't kick you out of IDL in the middle of the
command line, only if there is nothing after the IDL prompt
(in the manual it says it does EOF if empty or EOL if not).
It does seem a bit user-unfriendly to me (but I guess that's
juts Unix :)

Tim

>> I don't know who *expects* ^D to kick them out when they're in the middle
>> of a command line...
>
> I expect it. It has been a part of IDL for at least 5 years.
>
>>
>> I'm all for a revolution. Viva la' ^D==delete! :-)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>

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		Ctrl-D By: Mark Fardal on Sun, 10 November 1996 00:00
		Re: Ctrl-D By: Andy Loughe on Tue, 12 November 1996 00:00
		Re: Ctrl-D By: Mark Fardal on Tue, 12 November 1996 00:00
		Re: Ctrl-D By: Tim Patterson on Sat, 16 November 1996 00:00
		Re: Ctrl-D By: Andy Loughe on Fri, 15 November 1996 00:00
		Re: Ctrl-D By: Mike Ressler on Thu, 14 November 1996 00:00

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