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Re: Ctrl-D [message #7495 is a reply to message #7359]

Thu, 14 November 1996 00:00

Mike Ressler
Messages: 3
Registered: November 1996

Junior Member

Andilu wrote:
>
>>> characters (C-a, C-e, C-k) are available for editing the command line,
>>> but this similarity lulls me into using C-d as well sometimes. Then
>>> my session is gone instantly. Highly annoying.
>>
>> 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.

I strongly disagree - I've been using emacs for 12 years, so that beats
the
1 year I've been using IDL, so that's a longer standing feature. RSI may
certainly keep the status quo as the default, but I would dearly love to
see DEFINE_KEY operate on control keys as well as function keys. Ctrl-D
and
ctrl-X would swap definitions immediately!

>> 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.

Since few other programs use ctrl-D to exit, I definitely don't expect
it and
would just like to see it redefineable. Heck, even Netscape (which I'm
using
right now) knows how to do something sensible with ctrl-D.

--
Mike Ressler, PhD ressler@cougar.jpl.nasa.gov
Astronomer, Infrared Camera Engineer, System Administrator
Slayer of trees, observatory vehicles, and /tmp disks
"A kludge of the highest order ..."

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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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